“Eric Allman, the original author of sendmail, is a leading
member of the Sendmail Consortium and a longtime contributor to
Berkeley Unix. He wrote the -me macros, tset, trek, syslog,
and vacation. Eric spoke with us about sendmail’s history, open
standards, spam and viruses, and future features in sendmail.”
“We’ve heard you referred to more than once as “one of the
inventors of the Internet.” Not to make you blush.”
“Well, I don’t think that’s true. Many people today want to be
thought of as the Father of the Internet, but I certainly don’t
qualify.”