From: Michael Orlitzky (michaelorlitzky.com)
Date: Thu Jul 16 2009 - 23:37:04 CDT

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Wietse Venema wrote:
> Jose Luis Tallon:
>> Wietse Venema wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>> It's no worse than smtp versus smtpd. If there exists a different
>>> name for the agent at the door, then that might work. Alas, cerberus
>>> is already in use (by the "kerberos" authentication system).
>>>
>> And so are "Heimdall" (KTH's implementation of Kerberos) as well as
>> Anubis and Horus.
>> Unless you want to use "St.Peter", of course --- no offense intended,
>> of course.
>
> I briefly looked for alternatives to St. George, the dragon slayer
> but didn't come up with a sexy name.
>
> "bouncer" would be good if there was not a near name collision.
> Would "zbouncer" be different enough? It's a bit long, though.
>
> Perhaps, "zombo" (zombie bouncer)?
>
> [Charon]
>
> Charon is not too bad. Certainly better than zzapper or zkiller
> and other ugly names that I did not mention.
>
> Wietse

 From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus,

   Continuing his journey to Thebes, Oedipus encounters the Sphinx who
   would stop all those who traveled to Thebes and ask them a riddle. If
   the travelers were unable to answer correctly, they were eaten by the
   Sphinx; if they were successful, they would be able to continue their
   journey.

Short, no collisions, and has an 'x' to supply coolness. I am partial to
"prefix," though, and agree that "bouncer" would just confuse people.

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