Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:07:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990906150625.9402O-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <199909020856.CAA23855@harmony.village.org>
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Both postmaster and mailer-daemon seem to have some amount of historical precedent. On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199909012256.PAA01514@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : If we do this, I hope a more obvious name is chosen; something like > : "mailman" might be a start. Or "mailperson", or "postperson", or > : whatever. "mta" just feels a little obscure. > > postmanpete > > which is both obscure and descriptive. Sadly it may be sexist as > well... > > Warner > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Robert N M Watson robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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