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[[email protected]: Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's]



The discussion is a username to provide on FreeBSD systems for use
by mail delivery agents (e.g. sendmail, qmail, postfix).

----- Forwarded message from Wes Peters <[email protected]> -----

Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 12:38:12 -0600
From: Wes Peters <[email protected]>
To: Matthew Hunt <[email protected]>
Cc: Warner Losh <[email protected]>, Mike Smith <[email protected]>,
        Ollivier Robert <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Subject: Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

Matthew Hunt wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 12:01:11AM -0600, Wes Peters wrote:
> 
> > Hah!  Try "mcfeely" for obscure and descriptive.  Much better than the
> > much-maligned "newman" or the out-of-date "cliffy".
> 
> And "mcfeely" has connotations of rapid dispatching of mail, which the
> other two certainly do not.

Exactly.  Speedy Delivery is good.  Bar stools and never-emptying mail 
queues are not.

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Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
http://softweyr.com/                                           [email protected]

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