[Pkg-exim4-users] Second try to define "virtual"

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

the inflationary use of the word "virtual" connected with almost
everything has been accompanying this list, exim, the Debian exim
packages and all support media. The latest occurence of this is Debian
bug #408467 (http://bugs.debian.org/408467), where I was faced with
insults after denying to install a "virtual" router to the Debian
default configurations.

To make communication about this a little easier, I would like to have
more "formal" definition of a "virtual foo" in exim context. I have
created a page on my personal wiki,
http://wiki.zugschlus.de/doku.php?id=definingvirtualforexim, and would
like to solicit your comments and improvements.

Once this document reaches maturity, I will try to find "new" words
for the features we define to avoid misunderstandings with people
asking for virtual stuff.

I hope that the result of that discussion will be a list of
definitions what is exactly meant when somebody talks about a "virtual
foo", which could be more exactly supported by having boilerplate
config snippets.

Greetings
Marc

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