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Subject: RE: SunScreen
From: maass @ thinkfish . rhein-main . de (Joerg Maass)
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 23:58:52 +0100
To: Frank Willoughby <frankw @ in . net>
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM

Hi Frank,

>The next is a trivial point, but from a marketing perspective, I would have
>chosen a name other than Sunscreen for the firewall.  A "Sunscreen" brings
>to mind a lotion which one applies to oneself when going to the beach to
>protect against UV rays.  In other words, one is trying to protect oneself
>from the SUN.  This is not good - particularly if this (subliminal) concept
>is transferred to the product (ie - a product which is required to protect
>the customer from SUN).
>

if you look at the DNS/BIND implementation in SunOS, this might even be a
valid case ;-).


All the best



Joerg Maass


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