From: Michele Andreoli ([email protected])
Date: Thu Nov 09 2000 - 22:26:42 CET
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 03:14:21PM -0500, [email protected] nicely wrote:
>
> "mutt" is an American slang term for a dog of mixed and informal breeding,
> usually of friendly disposition. Frequently trained to go and fetch the
> family newspaper, etc.
>
> I always thought it was a Unix-ish play on "Fido", the generic name for the
> American family dog, as well as refering to Fidonet.
>
Oh, a "Fido" dog. I like that similitudo, because a good dog always
bring back what its master launched, in this case: an email reply :-)
Michele
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