On Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 10:06:42PM +0200, Frank D. Cringle wrote:
> Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > "Soffen, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >I mean, How do you go from postfix to mail server (at least qmail and
> > >sendmail have the word MAIL in their titles).
> >
> > Well, "post" is "mail", and "fix", well, I guess that means it fixes
> > mail problems (namely sendmail :-).
>
> "fix" is colloquial for "quick" or "snappy" in German and possibly also in
> Dutch. Maybe that influenced Wietse's choice.
Uhm no, it's not, in Dutch.
Greetz, Peter.
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Peter van Dijk - student/sysadmin/ircoper/madly in love/pretending coder
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| 'C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot;
| C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.'
| Bjarne Stroustrup, Inventor of C++
