That is so weird.
IRD has just stopped publishing their Student Loan info newsletter. I got the last ever hard-copy today.
From now on, if you want to know what’s going on with your student loan you have to sign up to the e-newsletter.
So that’s what I did.
And I just got an automated confirmation email to welcome me to the newsletter list.
The email address it came from was MajorDomo@ird.govt.nz.
Can you make any sense of that?
Is it the name of a famous student war hero?
Is DOMO an acronym for something like “Dunk Oreo’s Monthly Ok”?
Is it the IT departments little joke?
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Turns out it could be the name of the email newsletter software that IRD uses (last stable release was in 2000).
Find out more at Wikipedia
The software got it’s name from Latin which means “head of the house”.
Even with this explanation it still makes little sense to me.
The majordomo was the head *servant* of the house, who controlled the day to day management and disbursements. Hence the mail server which hands out the news.
I think it’s just as silly as Telecom/Xtra calling their web servers Terminator & Alien.
DNS servers actually