Subject: Re: tcp-wrappers, tcpd, and NetBSD
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 03/16/1997 16:19:33
Perry Metzger writes:

>Jonathan Stone writes:
>> I would think "Mike St. Johns" would be a more intelligent response...

>At the time that Mike invented ident, the world was made up of very
>big machines. By the time Bernstein picked it up, St. Johns no longer
>was in favor of the use of ident. Don't blame him.

Exactly, which is why I think an IDENT daemon that says
"Mike St. Johns" is more *intelligent* than one that says
"Dan Bernstein".  Which was apparently too cryptic.