Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

[Robert]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:00:25 -0400
Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote:


> > 
> > Fit the bill ...  well.. so did the Geocentric model .. and it
> > actually did work just as fine .. and even better yet since it also
> > mantained the "status quo" ! ... but then Galileo came and you know
> > the rest of the story ...
> 
> Actually it didn't.   It didn't describe observable conditions and
> events.
> 
It appears that Copernicus built his bike shed 100 years before Galileo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernicus