From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 20 14:30:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA2E16A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:30:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta11.adelphia.net (mta11.adelphia.net [68.168.78.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 897E343D5C for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 14:29:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([68.68.113.33]) by mta11.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20031220222958.GCKA1240.mta11.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com> for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2003 17:29:58 -0500 Message-ID: <3FE4CD66.3040603@potentialtech.com> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 17:29:58 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031005 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chat@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: A bit of trivia: what does usr stand for? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 22:30:00 -0000 Hey, I had a friend tell me once that usr wasn't short for "user" as I've long thought, but was actually an abbreviation for something more interesting (and technical). For some reason, I've been thinking about this today. Does anyone know if this is true, and if so, what usr actually stands for? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com