'scuse my ignorance, but PHB is new to me. Anyone care to elucidate?
Paul Walsh
Senior Systems Programmer, Information Services,
University of Central England, BIRMINGHAM B42 2SU
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Sheryn [SMTP:D.H.Sheryn@???]
> Sent: Thursday, November 05, 1998 2:04 PM
> To: Philip Hazel
> Cc: exim-users@???
> Subject: Re: [EXIM] what does "exim" mean?
>
> On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Philip Hazel wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> >
> > > Before Philip (or someone else who actually knows) answers, I wouldn't
> > > mind taking a guess:
> > >
> > > EXperimental Internet Mail
> > >
> > > I have very little confidence in that guess.
> >
> > You do yourself an injustice. It was "EXperimental Internet Mailer" in
> > fact. That was the best I could come up with when I was starting out. At
> > that point it *was* experimental - I wanted to see if the ideas I had
> > for extending Smail's approach actually worked. Like biff, somebody
> > discovered about it and wanted to start using it, and told other people
> > about it...
> >
> > I'd better put this in the FAQ.
>
> Please don't ! Some PHB-type will read that it's still "EXperimental" and
> refuse to let us install it... ! (ISTR shaking that particular tree once
> in
> thae past already... :-)
>
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