[ossig] Reliable Mail Server - Or Not So ...

[Uwe Dippel <udippel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Was astonished to see the discussion dying down so fast - so I thought. 
But it was only the regular unexpected - sorry, rather expected - 
fortnightly downtime of Uniten's AV-Filter-MTA that made me think so. 
Lucky you, I didn't get any mail and therefore didn't feel compelled to 
answer. Now there are some 15 mails in the archive 
(http://www.mncc.com.my/ossig/lists/general/2004-05/index.html) that 
never made it into my mailbox. And now its too late to answer in detail.
The proprietary - scratch - billg IV - innovation thingy is a 
misunderstanding, so nothing lost. The tiny wiggly arms much too short 
to see them, neither with a magnifying glass nor a microscope. No loss 
either. Any comment to the ever larger growing gaps between the BSDs 
might have been perceived as flame, after all. The same applies to any 
statement about Theo de Raadt.
I agree fully with RIS on his rights on his three modules. My only 
contribution here would have been to recommend Lawrence Lessig's 
presentation about Copyrights (almost an hour, download > 30 MB); simply 
an intriguing piece of everything; but even that wouldn't have been 
mine. So, still no loss. SCO could not have patented Unix, but this is 
an aside, still.

The only relevant thing left to mention: Thanks for the efforts to bring 
some points into a Wiki or similar; that's phantastic. 99% of the 
population have a wrong understanding of the basic concepts here; and 
this includes developers and OpenSource activists. It is a laudable 
effort to bring a basic structure into at least the basic perceptions. 
(The percentage in the developed countries could be guessed to amout to 
98% to have 'weird' ideas about this field.)

Thanks to all contributors !

Uwe

P.S.: http://riscniaga.netfirms.com/contact.html - this link right hand 
side on the home page - is a 404. Maybe you want to look into this.


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