Somebody (I think it was ESR) called this pointless, wasteful, and stupid. It would be, were it for the benefit of the dead. But it's not. It's very much for

Somebody (I think it was ESR) called this pointless, wasteful, and stupid. It would be, were it for the benefit of the dead. But it's not. It's very much for the benefit of the living. It's a way of remembering a man who was so very important to us, but for me, it goes beyond that. Somewhere out there, there's a kid who's examining some net traffic. Maybe out of curiosity, maybe to debug some kind of problem. And he'll see an undocumented header, repeated across protocols. Legends don't come from nowhere: Pratchett fans, of all people, should know this. And a man whose name the network whispers to itself is a pretty good legend, don't you think?