linuxurious's Journal: Eric Allman in Singapore

I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet Mr Eric Allman (the author of Sendmail) in person when he came to Singapore, presumably on a business tour and gave a talk in a local university (of which I am a student in). While he is a very interesting fellow, his talk bordered on the brink of being a cure for insomnia because he only talked about some history of the Internet (for what? none of the attendees are history students) and some general issues on email and nothing (really) about Sendmail. It was disappointing for me because I thought he would be lecturing on the technalities on Sendmail. I would later understood from the organiser that it was the organiser's intention not to have Mr Allman to talk about his Sendmail. What a shame.

Unfortunately, there seems to be quite a few of qmail fans attending the talk and hence I could detect a tinge of hostility during the Q&A session. Bad qmail fans, go away!