Marc Haber wrote:
>
> the inflationary use of the word "virtual" connected with almost
> everything has been accompanying this list, exim, the Debian exim
> pacakges 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.
While the reporter was certainly a bit over the top, I think that the
term "virtual domain" has a very well understood meaning in email admin
circles; it's a domain hosted on the system whose email accounts don't
map directly to local machine login accounts.
- Marc
