None of the Above (was Re: Sendmail still default?)

[Colin Walters]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
>>
>>>> Local delivery of mail is a poor solution, since it provides no
>>>> indication of priority difference between "You've got spam" and "Your hard
>>>> drive is failing".
>>>
>>> That's a solvable problem within the context of email, whereas starting
>>> from scratch and re-inventing delivery to arbitrary user-selectable
>>> endpoints is somewhat insane.
>>
>> I'm sure the anti-spam companies would be delighted to hear it. Yes, it's
>> a solvable problem - but you're conflating two things, important system
>> updates and personal email. I think trying to present these two quite
>> different things in the same way is a bad idea.
>
> I think it is a bad idea for you to decide

Let's be clear - this is a meritocracy, not a vote-by-email-repetition system.