From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 6 12:11: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 898BF15426 for ; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 12:10:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA09900; Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:07:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@cyrus.watson.org) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 15:07:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org Reply-To: Robert Watson To: Warner Losh Cc: Mike Smith , Ollivier Robert , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's In-Reply-To: <199909020856.CAA23855@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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