10 Feb
2025
10 Feb
'25
9:56 p.m.
On Mon, Feb 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM Lawrence Stewart <stewart(a)serissa.com> wrote:
Meta note: I think Dave meant a quote in a comment in Unix somewhere,
not the origin of the True Name myth. :-)
- Dan C.
On Feb 10,
2025, at 16:00, Dave Horsfall <dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
... it is possible to kill a person if you know his true name.
I'm trying to find the origin of that phrase (which I've likely mangled);
V5 or thereabouts?
Here’s a stackexchange page about it.
https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/1724/where-did-the-idea-of-a…