Silencing fetchmail

Jude DaShiell dashielljt at gmpexpress.net
Mon Jan 20 14:12:21 EST 2003


It's called biff for a very good reason, but only those who know the
background of Unix would know.  It turns out that when Kernighan and gang
there were six in all gave birth to Unix in a college dorm room on one
weekend in the 1970's they had a dog in the room with them and it was a
very good watchdog going after anybody who came to the door and announcing
them.  The dog's name was Biff, so this is in tribute to the dog and a bit
of Unix trivia for you.

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Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net>





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