From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 3 11:36:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97FA71510D for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:36:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id LAA14104; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:35:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id LAA09413; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:26:18 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn4.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA20292; Fri, 3 Sep 99 11:35:35 PDT Message-Id: <37D014F7.7C32ADBB@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 12:35:35 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Ollivier Robert , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's References: <19990902003928.A33233@keltia.freenix.fr> <199909012256.PAA01514@dingo.cdrom.com> <19990902212949.B40966@keltia.freenix.fr> <19990903104128.K88479@pavilion.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Josef Karthauser wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 09:29:49PM +0200, Ollivier Robert wrote: > > According to Mike Smith: > > > 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. > > > > "smtp", the first proposal is a better idea then. "mailman" (like it is used > > on hub) is more for a human. > > Don't use 'mailman' please. We've already got it assigned across > site for the MailMan mailing list software. :) And here I think it's a trademark of Karl Malone. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message