None of the Above (was Re: Sendmail still default?)

[Olivier Galibert]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:20:03PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> I'm pretty solidly of the opinion that email is nowhere near being the 
> most sensible way to get important information to a typical desktop 
> user. If a failure is important then the user needs to know about it as 
> soon as possible - mail provides no guarantees about timely delivery. We 
> have plenty of desktop infrastructure to give important alerts to users, 
> we're just failing to do so.

Important does not always mean urgent, and there are a lot of cases
when the person in front of the keyboard, if any, is not the one
interested in the information.

Another way to say it is "stop thinking in Microsoft Windows terms".

  OG.