Author: Patrick Kirk Date: To: Dave C. CC: Patrick Kirk, Exim Users Subject: Re: [Exim] Web based admin
#! On Thu, Sep 06, 2001, Dave C. wrote:
>
>Really, anyone who is not smart enough to configure a mailer the right
>way, shouldnt really be configuring a mailer at all.
>
>Would you really want your local power company making a 'simple,
>GUI-based' interface to control your local nuclear reactor so that they
>didnt have to hire nucler engineers and instead could just hire
>high school students to run it? I didn't think so.
>>
>
How very true. Apart from a loud bang before the whinging starts, there
really is no difference between blowing up a nuclear reactor and
depriving Mabel in accounts of email. In fact, if you're on site when
it happens, you will probably hear more grief from Mabel.
Next time I'm selling a system, that's exactly what I'll tell the buyer
if he wants a web based interface to manage file sharing, adding
removing users, etc. Why? With a CLI instead of all these girly gui
things he can feel like a real man.
Of course he'll show me the door and buy MS Small business Server
instead but the point will have been made.
Thanks for the input. >--
>
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Patrick "a sig, a sig, my kingdom for a sig " Kirk
