At 2/28/2000 10:45 PM -0600, Edward S. Marshall wrote or quoted:
>The dolphin would be great, especially if you could contrast it with a
>forlorn-looking bat...*grin* Maybe:
>
>"Don't queue mail with Sendmail..." <BAT>
> <DOLPHIN> "Send mail with QMail!"
Actually, I rather like the idea of a bat struggling under a huge quantity
of mail, kind of small, with a larger dolphin underneath flinging mail all
over the place and looking generally happy. (Of course, dolphins pretty
much always look happy anyway...) Maybe the dolphin could be tossing the
mail toward its (unseen, off-screen) destination with its mouth, or batting
it there with its tail, or even blasting it there with a jet from its
blowhole. (Or all three at once.)
Or the bat could just be partly buried in a pile of mail, sort of like Kirk
in the first "tribbles" episode of the original Star Trek.
If the size ratios were sort of like below, I think it would still be
definitely representing qmail more than sendmail. (I think it's important
that it be more pro-qmail than anti-sendmail; I've always preferred to
define myself by what I'm for than by what I'm against).
B A T
Don't queue mail with sendmail... B A T
B A T
Send mail with Qmail!
DDD OOO L PPP H H III N N
D D O O L P P H H I N N N
D D O O L PPP HHHHH I N N N
D D O O L P H H I N NN
DDD OOO LLL P H H III N N
(Actually, the dolphin should maybe be a bit smaller, but I couldn't make
the BUAF any smaller without screwing legibility completely. And the text
font on "Send mail with qmail!" should be a few points larger than that for
"Don't queue mail with sendmail...".)
Ideally, of course, this would require a cartoonist to give a little "life"
to the characters. I think it works better if the bat looks just totally
swamped, like he's being asked to perform a task that's simply way too big
for him (much like sendmail itself), while the dolphin is just having the
time of its life and enjoying slinging mail around at incomprehensible speeds.
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Kai MacTane
System Administrator
Online Partners.com, Inc.
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From the Jargon File: (v4.0.0, 25 Jul 1996)
house wizard /n./
A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position
at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influ-
ence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not
have to wear a suit.
