Their homepage explains why I never heard of it: it "uses the most massive and diverse open messaging system ever: the existing e-mail server network". That won't work for (video) calling; not an option for me. I might as well just send my mom an email at that point? (Since I self-host mail, it wouldn't even have to leave localhost. Also, guess what I'm debugging right now... what monster even created this thing called sendmail...)
>I was at a talk that had something to do with Unix. Fortunately, I’ve succeeded in repressing all but the speaker’s opening remark:
>I’m rather surprised that the author of sendmail is still walking around alive.
>The thing that gets me is that one of the arguments that landed Robert Morris, author of “the Internet Worm” in jail was all the sysadmins’ time his prank cost. Yet the author of sendmail is still walking around free without even a U (for Unixery) branded on his forehead.
Their homepage explains why I never heard of it: it "uses the most massive and diverse open messaging system ever: the existing e-mail server network". That won't work for (video) calling; not an option for me. I might as well just send my mom an email at that point? (Since I self-host mail, it wouldn't even have to leave localhost. Also, guess what I'm debugging right now... what monster even created this thing called sendmail...)
>I was at a talk that had something to do with Unix. Fortunately, I’ve succeeded in repressing all but the speaker’s opening remark:
>I’m rather surprised that the author of sendmail is still walking around alive.
>The thing that gets me is that one of the arguments that landed Robert Morris, author of “the Internet Worm” in jail was all the sysadmins’ time his prank cost. Yet the author of sendmail is still walking around free without even a U (for Unixery) branded on his forehead.
- The Unix Haters Handbook