From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 2 23: 2: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A188215AA3 for ; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 23:02:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 11MmPS-0005Mh-00; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 00:01:15 -0600 Message-ID: <37CF6427.450B9902@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 00:01:11 -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: Warner Losh Cc: Mike Smith , Ollivier Robert , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's References: <199909012256.PAA01514@dingo.cdrom.com> <199909020856.CAA23855@harmony.village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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... Hah! Try "mcfeely" for obscure and descriptive. Much better than the much-maligned "newman" or the out-of-date "cliffy". -- "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