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- Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:55:48 +0900
- From: Michael Smith <smith@example.com>
- Subject: [tlug] "done one job and do it well" mailer [was: Alan Cox's remark at Fosdem]
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Uva Coder <uva.coder@example.com> writes: [...] > I think what separates the Bell Labs (BL) open source operating > systems from the GNU based open source operating systems is > discernment. This discernment comes from a philosophy. > > An example of the difference is where a utility should to do one > job and do it well. For instance, an utility should not attempt > to be a swiss knife (e.g., tar -xzvf file.tar.gz). Along these > lines we do not need a plethroa of mailers; just one mailer that > works right. [...] And that mailer would be MH. You're not going to find another mailer that better illustrates the "software tools" philosophy. So why aren't we all using MH? --Mike -- Michael Smith http://logopoeia.com/ | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/890Attachment: smime.p7s
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