hi all. in the middle of the recovery from the most recent server fiasco, somebody ask about why "fawnya.meddle.org" and sometimes just "meddle.org" ? i don't recall answering, and cannot find orig mail. and as it is a faq, here we go...
in a prior incarnation "fawnya" was the machine on my desk and having the name made the mail routing a bit faster. the setup is different now, but i still recommend it as i might just change back at some point.
fawnya is also the name of our oldest daughter and, as i was sysadmin in the copious spare time :-/ allowed by my engineering tasks, i got to dictate the systems naming policy: name machines after our kids became the rule. so there you have [basically] the whole story. ttfn, bear.