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three pictures, and he picked the bat because it appealed to him
the most. The fun answer is that, although sendmail has a
reputation for being scary, like a bat, it is really a rather
friendly and intelligent beast.Friendly and intelligent? Feh. I can come up with tons of better
answers to that one. Especially because it’s so patently wrong. To
wit:- The common North American brown bat’s diet is composed princi-
pally of bugs. Sendmail is a software package which is composed
principally of bugs. - Sendmail and bats both suck.
- Sendmail maintainers and bats both tend to be nocturnal creatures,
making “eep eep” noises which are incomprehensible to the average
person. - Have you ever watched a bat fly? Have you ever watched Sendmail
process a queue full of undelivered mail? QED. - Sendmail and bats both die quickly when kept in captivity.
- Bat guano is a good source of potassium nitrate, a principal ingredi-
ent in things that blow up in your face. Like Sendmail. - Both bats and sendmail are held in low esteem by the general public.
- Bats require magical rituals involving crosses and garlic to get them
to do what you want. Sendmail likewise requires mystical incanta-
tions such as:
R<$+>$*$=Y$~A$* $:<$1>$2$3?$4$5 Mark user portion.
R<$+>$*!$+,$*?$+ <$1>$2!$3!$4?$5 is inferior to @
R<$+>$+,$*?$+ <$1>$2:$3?$4 Change src rte to % path
R<$+>:$+ <$1>,$2 Change % to @ for immed. domain
R<$=X$-.UUCP>!?$+ $@<$1$2.UUCP>!$3 Return UUCP
R<$=X$->!?$+ $@<$1$2>!$3 Return unqualified
R<$+>$+?$+ <$1>$2$3 Remove '?'
R<$+.$+>$=Y$+ $@<$1.$2>,$4 Change do user@domain