-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 22 May 1999 16:48:47 -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote:
>Unix-esque operating systems are _not_ designed for casual use. I understand that. >The more you understand about the way computers work, the more efficently you >will be able to do things. I know that as well. Must be why I've been a SysAdmin of one standing or another in various ISPs for the past 3+ years now. >I've recently started doing a little bit of programming, and its not really >_that_ difficult. I'd think that you would want to learn about something that >can save you time. That's the entire spirit of the open source movement; give >you very flexible programs and not restrict you to a single >program/platform/operating system/CPU. Which is why I code in perl. I am a scripter. I can whip together a mean perl script to get stuff done. I'm well adept at the "glue" that keeps a system together. Programming, however, programming on the scale of an editor or an MUA, is beyond me. I accept that limitation. So I know how Unix works. I also know, however, from my perl experience, that there should *always* be "more than one way to do it." In this case, there is not. As I outlined in my private mail to you Unix people insist that all mail coming into a physical account are the same virtual account. There is no real way to seperate them out easily without a conglomaration of filters, scripts and hacks. Hacks are good, I'll grant that, but when they are a *requirement* to get something that should be available as a standard *option* that many people want and need, maybe it is time someone took it upon themselves to take the hacks and make them easier, standard and installable. - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls. - -------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.0 (C) 1997 Pretty Good Privacy, Inc iQA/AwUBN0cbEnpf7K2LbpnFEQKXFwCgu3jZ7npoCEhcvc4gUT9oemClNqQAoI5W 4BbLuxc71rRnPB+UvVFe4Kv6 =awzb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----