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From: h.stroph on 18 Apr 2008 15:43
In news:bill-F5B27F.14353918042008(a)news.det.sbcglobal.net,
Bill Cole <bill(a)scconsult.com> typed:

> Nowhere in that is there any mention of Sendmail, and if your mail
> server *is* Sendmail ...

The name of the program is sendmail, not Sendmail.


From: Bill Cole on 18 Apr 2008 19:38
In article <fuatln$9m8$1(a)aioe.org>, "h.stroph" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote:

> In news:bill-F5B27F.14353918042008(a)news.det.sbcglobal.net,
> Bill Cole <bill(a)scconsult.com> typed:
>
> > Nowhere in that is there any mention of Sendmail, and if your mail
> > server *is* Sendmail ...
>
> The name of the program is sendmail, not Sendmail.

Pedant :)

There are 3 reasons I use the perverse capitalization:

1. I have surrendered to the mystification of people (like, I suspect,
the poster I was responding to) who are confused by the Unix tradition
of non-capitalization and particularly by the use of uncapitalized words
as proper nouns.

2. These days, /usr/{sbin,lib,bin,libexec}/sendmail is fairly likely to
not be Real Sendmail or even an MTA at all. A capitalized Sendmail
clearly does not refer to some sendmail binary put in place as part of
Postfix or an OS/distro maintainer's sendmail script that selects one of
many different sendmail's depending on some config setting.

3. A capitalized Sendmail clearly does not refer narrowly to the
sendmail binary. It lessens the possible misreading of a statement like
"mail.local is part of sendmail."

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Now where did I hide that website...
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