From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
To: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origin of Charlie Root
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 20:10:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAD2gp_TDHx1rAccsWTRELwOhFt1ZiruNWk-Rp29gOE1zCGuUEA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200923230646.GA20235@netmeister.org>
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 7:13 PM Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
wrote:
So I thought I'd ask here: who can (authoritatively)
> shed light on how we ended up with Charlie Root?
>
I have no idea, but I remembered this, part of the message sent by an
archive server when you send it an email saying "help":
The archive server does not respond to requests from users named "root",
"system", "daemon", or "mailer". This is to prevent mail loops. If your name
is "Bruce Root" or "Joe Daemon", and you can document this, I will happily
rewrite the server to remove this restriction. Yes, I know about Norman
Mailer and Waverley Root. Norman doesn't use netmail and Waverley is dead.
John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand
on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.
Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land,
to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.
--Thomas Henry Huxley
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