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"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
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"In a previous life I wrote the software that controlled my physics experiments. That software had to deal with all kinds of possible failures in equipment. That is probably where I learned to rely on multiple safety nets inside and around my systems."
Life
"Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software."
People
"Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists."
Business
"Lack of documentation is becoming a problem for acceptance."
Acceptance
"At the time the Sendmail program had a very poor reputation with respect to security, with four root vulnerabilities per year for two successive years."
Time
"Coming back to the topic of computer security, the TCP Wrapper is an example of such a safety net. I wrote it when my systems were under attack by someone who appeared to walk through walls."
Computer
"Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process."
Favors
"The challenge with Postfix, or with any piece of software, is to update software without introducing problems."
Challenge
"The Postfix security model is based on keeping software simple and stupid."
Security
"Sure, but competition is good for the user."
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"Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!"
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"I do get a lot of mail. I get a lot of foreign mail because my mail gets mixed with Emilio Estevez."
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"I get mail; therefore I am."
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"In the office, the mail that came in was always 10 to 1 for me."
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"I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can."
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"I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously."
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"And I did Batman, too. I did Mr. Freeze. I get more mail for him than anything I've ever done."
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"As of today, the Postfix mail transport agent has almost 50,000 lines of code, comments not included."
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"I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible."
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"It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking."
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