From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 21 12: 6:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B6F137B401 for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:06:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.laserfence.net (apollo.laserfence.net [196.44.69.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FD6343FCB for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 12:06:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@unfoldings.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18mJR8-000FZ8-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:06:22 +0200 Received: from prometheus-p0.datel.laserfence.net ([192.168.255.1] helo=prometheus.home.laserfence.net) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18mJQt-000FZ0-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:06:08 +0200 Received: from phoenix.home.laserfence.net ([192.168.0.2]) by prometheus.home.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18mJQp-000B2k-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:06:03 +0200 Received: from will by phoenix.home.laserfence.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18mJQo-0002l3-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:06:02 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cvsup Handbook Example Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 22:06:02 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030221151412.D867B43FBF@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <1045854810.22986.479.camel@home.gusalmighty.com> <1045856524.23001.515.camel@home.gusalmighty.com> In-Reply-To: <1045856524.23001.515.camel@home.gusalmighty.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200302212206.02118.will@unfoldings.net> X-Spam-Score: (/) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18mJQt-000FZ0-00*jqIKed/Pu5g* X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020422 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't really get it either, as I pointed out in an off-list e-mail to the original sender earlier, this has nothing to do with Christian mythology or satanic anything. 666 is, by all historic and scientific accounts, a Masonic symbol. Now unless you have a problem with people who have an intriguing fixation with geometry (Free Masons), then I can't see anything wrong with using the number. We're long past the point where you can't use 13 as a number, why should this be any different, really? On Friday 21 February 2003 21:42, Justin Hopper wrote: > Sorry, this of course should have read 'after 665 and before 667'. > > On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 11:13, Justin Hopper wrote: > > Hello unamed person, > > > > For the rest of the world that doesn't follow Christian Mythology, 666 > > is just the number after 667 and before 665. I've used 666 in several > > coding examples, usually for client/server socket daemons, as most > > people don't have anything using port 666. > > > > Would you rather that the good people of FreeBSD be barred from using > > particular numbers? This could pose a problem. -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message