On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 03:24 +0800, W B Hacker wrote: > Where is the 'virtual'? > > Historically, it may have come from the support of a UID that did not have a > system login account or access to a shell.
actually, I think the term comes for virtual hosts in Apache. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_hosting the introduction of this feature meant that service providers no longer needed a separate server for each customer, but could host them on multiple virtual servers on a single physical box. the term has since been extended to "user" and "domain". > Shared resources. Multi-<whatever>. But NOT 'virtual'. feel free to call your server "multi-domain", but it won't change the way others talk. -- Kjetil T. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
