On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:28:32AM -0500, David T-G wrote: > Curt -- > > ...and then Curt W. Zirzow said... > % * Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > % > To expand a little on this. > > Since I happen to be responding to Curt's followup ... > > > % > > % > For some bizarre reason Slackware is distributed with > % > > % > biff y > % > > % > In it's /etc/profile. > > *snort* I ain't goin' there. > > > % > > % > The appalling biff program requires "comsat" to do it's job, so that > % > is why I guess Slackware has it enabled. > > So the real fix would be to modify /etc/profile rather than simply turn > off comsat and have biff trying to run anyway. > Depends if anything else of the biff variety uses it. > > % > > % > "biff" (named after the author's dog btw) screws the mail access time. > % > % I wonder if that was an influence on using 'mutt' instead of calling it > > FYI, the 'author' in question there wrote biff back in the very early > days of BSD's variant (IIRC). The story goes that this dog, really named > biff, would *always* bark at the mailman when he came by and that came to > be a handy service. > I am aware of this.
> % something like 'mule'. But then we would have to figure out which email > % clients were the horse and donkey. :) > > Touche :-) > > > Yours for Truth in Trivia, > Does this email have a point ? If so I am missing it. Unless it is to expand on the "dog" story. -- Regards Cliff
