RE: [Exim] Web based admin

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Juha Saarinen 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.
>
> That analogy doesn't really hold... and if you were to look in the
> control room of your nearest nuclear plant, you would see GUIs.
>
> What would you prefer: someone fat-fingering the conf file that controls
> the fuel rod hoisting mechanism, or a well thought out GUI that guides
> the operator, so that mistakes are minimised?

I would prefer an engineer that knows how the nuclear plant operates,
that can take any action he needs, which might include lots of things
that may not have occured to someone writing (or using) some sort of
pointy-clicky GUI thing.

> Anyway, there's more to GUIs than configuring... they are actually quite
> useful for monitoring and ongoing management (viz. Eximon).

viz, I dont use eximon. The command-line tools are much easier to use,
and are much faster and powerful.

>
> --
> Juha
>
>

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