On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Peter Samuel wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Magnus Bodin wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 06:18:44PM -0200, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
> > > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Neil Floris wrote:
> > >   I think that is only one advantage on usign sendmail: you can
> > > program it to play the old 'X' or 'O' game... ( somebody can tell me how
> > > can i say this game name in english? )
> > >   
> > >        X |   |
> > >       ___|___|___
> > >          | X |
> > >       ___|___|___
> > >          |   |
> > >          | O | O
> > 
> > 
> > It's called tic-tac-toe. But the above story I've heard several times but
> > I have NOT seen any evidence trace of it but a small passus repeating the
> > fact that "... programming a tic-tac-toe game in sendmail.cf ...".
> 
> <flippant>
> That's not the question he asked. He wanted to know what the game is
> called in _English_. It's called "Noughts and Crosses". In _American_
> it's called "tic-tac-toe" :)
> </flippant>

Ok, but what's it called in Australian?   :-P

> I used to have a sendmail.cf that turned sendmail into a slow
> mathematical calculator. I'll see if I can hunt it down (I'll also
> have to find a sendmail system to test it - not many around here
> any more :)

You should see if there's a way to convert it to work with qmail control
files.  Then we could have a fast mathematical calculator...

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