Re: [ic] [Fwd: Naming of RedHat IC Servers]

[Mike Heins <mheins@redhat.com>]

Quoting Victor Nolton (ven@pragakhan.com):
> 
> >Personally, I believe there are greater concerns than Anthrax, but I
> >have a lot of people under my responsibility (typically of the female
> >gender) that have been shaken and highly agitated since the initial
> >attack and more so with the recent outbreaks of Anthrax.  I'm not amused
> >by RedHat's tremendous lack of sensitivity and ask that someone there
> >deal with this in a little more professional manner because I certainly
> >do not need the additional aggravation...
> 
> 
> I would only be annoyed or offended if Red Hat had named the server 
> "Anthrax" after the start of the Anthrax scare/situation. But it has 
> been around for months. And quite frankly, I don't know why anyone 
> would be upset, you can't catch Anthrax through the internet.
> 
> And I guess it they are truely offended, Maybe they should just not 
> visit the server..

All firewall machines at the old Akopia were named for poisons
or other dangerous agents. I believe there was a "cyanide" and
"strychnine" as well.

This predates the current troubles by well over a year.

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