this thread reminded me of customer interaction pain of yore ... in the late 90s our host naming scheme for the servers @ visi was to use the names of various ancient gods. the primary smtp server happened to be baal.visi.com. (a quick google for "smtp baal.visi.com" seems to indicate that the hostname has been available into the mid-00s). given the negative prominence that ba'al (pick your spelling) has received in judeo-christian fabl^H^H^H^H religious texts; this hostname, with surprising frequency, resulted in someone from tech support passing me or someone else in engineering, calls from concerned customers. these customers wanted to express their concern for corporate salvation, or intent to take their business elsewhere if false gods were found in their SMTP headers again. sigh ... On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote: > I found an email referencing the FreeBSD Daemon that was shared as a result > of a HUGE flame war on the FreeBSD Questions list last summer... and thought > I'd share it here: > > Linda Branagan is an expert on daemons. She has a T-shirt that sports the > daemon in tennis shoes that appears on the cover of the 4.3BSD manuals and > The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System by S. > Leffler, M. McKusick, M. Karels, J. Quarterman, Addison-Wesley Publishing > Company, Reading, MA 1989. > > She tells the following story about wearing the 4.3BSD daemon T-shirt > > RTA: http://www.milk.com/true-stories/unix_for_the_masses.html > This post was a result of a food-for-thought effort and will not be > continued by the OP. > -- > The OP. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -- steve ulrich (sulrich at botwerks.*)