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Now I am wondering what kind of unix magic "oregano" must be...

> The oregano is reputedly referring to an incident in which one of the original folks involved with BSD was hassled for coming across the Canadian/U.S. border with a bag of what was assumed to be an illegal substance, and turned out to be oregano.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.unix.wizards/c/qkiqSJWgEPE/...

I had always heard this explanation (back to when the poster was new and we all wanted one). And in the back of my mind I have always thought I'd been told the "BSD founder" of the story was Kirk McKusick. But I cannot for the life of me google (well...Kagi) up who the real culprit was. Does anyone know authoritatively?

That is a good one. Would be great to talk to the author and learn what they originally had in mind.

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