Ron Johnson wrote:
On 01/31/2009 09:24 PM, Nuno Magalhães wrote: [snip]main concern. I guess having an MTA is a side-effect of the whole client/server thing; prejucide or not it's an opinion.That's Windows-think to say whether a *computer* s a client or server. Such a mindset needs to be banished to get full use out of your machine.In the Unix world, *applications* are client or server. The Operating System itself is fully capable of running both client and server apps at the same time.
No, whether a machine is a client or a server existed long before either Windows or Unix existed. It is Linux users who are trying to redefine terms used that way for over 40 years.