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Subject: Re: satan, 666, goat's blood
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Date: Thu, 12-Feb-87 18:10:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 12 18:10:10 1987
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In article <711@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP> alicia@bucsb.bu.edu.UUCP (alicia h) writes:
>	Hey out there, it's late and we're tired... but we have a 
>  question. Why are daemons (like,"rwhod", "talkd", "rsendd"...)
>  called "daemons". I mean, we know it's Latin for something that's
>  not quite a God, but more than a man - but how does that relate.
>        My first association is that daemons are eternal... but I
>  don't know....    just curios....
>		   alicia

I think down deep in one of the old 4.2 daemons if found:

Daemon:	
	runs around in the shadows (background) doing devilish deeds.


Maybe it was sendmail...

-kdz

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