From owner-freebsd-chat  Fri Apr  4 15:22:19 1997
Return-Path: <owner-chat>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA10684
          for chat-outgoing; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 15:22:19 -0800 (PST)
Received: from carlton.innotts.co.uk (root@carlton.innotts.co.uk [194.176.128.2])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA10679
          for <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>; Fri, 4 Apr 1997 15:22:11 -0800 (PST)
Received: from [194.176.130.66] (serialB01.innotts.co.uk [194.176.130.66])
	by carlton.innotts.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA10722;
	Sat, 5 Apr 1997 00:20:34 +0100 (BST)
X-Sender: robmel@mailhost.innotts.co.uk
Message-Id: <l03010d00af6b3beb83d0@[194.176.130.2]>
In-Reply-To: <3346D36A.2E5F7DE4@konnections.com>
References: <1637.860190691@time.cdrom.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 00:20:32 +0100
To: mike allison <mallison@konnections.com>,
        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
From: Robin Melville <robmel@innotts.co.uk>
Subject: Re: BSD's Mascot
Cc: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by freefall.freebsd.org id PAA10680
Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

At 11:34 pm +0100 5/4/97, mike allison wrote:
>... a
>large part of UNIX is understanding the puns and wordplay within the
>system.  

ummm, well, a daemon is a daemon because it works invisibly -- ie. not connected to a terminal -- "The ghost within the machine". This has nothing to do with goodness, badness, or indifference.

The BSD mascot is (and has, judging by a previous correspondent on this list) only likely to play havoc with the sensitivities of extremist Christians. Which only goes to show that even the cuddliest of images will upset someone, and that evil is in the eye of the beholder....

Rob.