What's the meaning of the word "daemon?" I see this when I get a mis-addressed email returned, and why was it chosen?

Zbeckabee

In the internet's standard e-mail protocol SMTP, a bounce message, or (failed) Delivery Status Notification (DSN) message, aka Non-Delivery Report/Receipt (NDR), Non-Delivery Notification (NDN), or simply a bounce is an automated electronic mail message from a mail system informing the sender of another message about a delivery problem. The original message is said to have bounced. In Unix and other computer multitasking operating systems, a daemon is a computer program that runs in the background, rather than under the direct control of a user; they are usually initiated as background processes. Typically daemons have names that end with the letter "d": for example, syslogd, the daemon that handles the system log, or sshd, which handles incoming SSH connections. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daemon_(computer_software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailer-Daemon Jan 20 10, 5:57 PM

great2beme

Daemon is also the name of a Digimon monster in Digimon World DS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Great_Demon_Lords Jan 20 10, 7:06 PM