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From: avatar@arkane.demon.co.uk (Alistair Young)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers,arkane.replies
Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 03:25:53 GMT
Organization: Arkane Systems Ltd.
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In <571mve$ov8@calvin.st-and.ac.uk>, dtrg@st-andrews.ac.uk (David Thomas Richard Given) writes:
>
>Over here, everyone I know and everyone they know and everyone *they*
>know pronounce it deemon.
You used to know me, and I've always pronounced it dye-mon. Of course, I
started pronouncing it without ever having heard it first, so that's
probably just me.
>Daemons are traditionally the helpers of the gods, who keep things
>running behind the scenes. They were never intended to be seen by mortals
>and so looked... disturbing.
>
>sendmail.cf, perhaps? :)
sendmail itself is disturbing if you look at the source.
Alistair "Sendmail == Hastur the Unspeakable.
...
Should I have said that?" Y
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