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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: BSD's Mascot
To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co (Pedro Giffuni)
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 09:36:06 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <33454584.39D4@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro Giffuni" at Apr 4, 97 10:16:36 am
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Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> 
> Howdy,
> I read some time ago that the "deamons" used by BSD were not so devilish
> after all. The term deamon , in it's latin roots, refers to a higher
> power, good or bad. In UNIX it is recognized that there are good and bad
> deamons.
> I have a clear understanding that FreeBSD is not related in anyway to
> evil or devils, but probably our mascot will not gain acceptance in
> certain countries where religious issues are really important (Israel,
> Iran, Irak...).

	wont be a problem amnong the mainstream Orthodox Jews in either
	Israel, the US or Europe.  i cant speak for the other groups,
	or for the Bible Belt of the US.

> B,66; I,73; L,76; L,76; G,71; A,65; T,84; E,69; S,83 and a 3 (His
> complete second name is Gates III) it all adds 666 (the number of the
> beast). Other famous terms:
> MS DOS 6.21	77+83+45+68+79+83+32+54		= 666
> Windows 95	87+73+78+68+79+87+83+57+53+1	= 666

	well i guess that confirms what i suspected all along. ;)
	playing(?) with sums formed from letters is a very old
	practice.  in hebrew every letter is also a number so no
	translation table is required.  the sequence for the letters
	runs 1, 2, 3, ... 9, 10, 20, ... 100, 200, 300, 400.  no
	0.  400 is the last leter of the alphabet (alef bet, are
	the first two letters of the alphabet[a])  numbers larger
	than 400 are fomed by  repeating 400, etc...well i guess
	that i have rambled enough.

jmb