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Date:      Wed, 15 Feb 1995 12:31:19 -0600 (CST)
From:      faulkner@mpd.tandem.com (Boyd Faulkner)
To:        syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au (Stephen McKay)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org, syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au
Subject:   Re: All the good ones are taken.
Message-ID:  <9502151831.AA07621@olympus>
In-Reply-To: <199502151327.XAA21672@pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au> from "Stephen McKay" at Feb 15, 95 11:27:51 pm

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> 
> I'm of the opinion that there aren't many good names out there.  So I was
> rather surprised to find that such a good name as "chat" has been taken by
> a lowly dialer program!  Yes, the PPP dialer program.
> 
> This is a behind-the-scenes program, so it can be called anything, as ugly as
> you like.  How about "dial-me-up-a-ppp-host-thanks", or even "pppdial".
> 
> What set me off today?  Well, I'm one of the crowd of people who wrote a
> chat program, before IRC cornered the market.  I call it "chat".  I want to
> vote PPP "chat" out of its spot, and leave the name free!  I want to dust off
> my old program and play with it, maybe even give it away.  I now know that
> /usr/bin/chat has been around at least since 1.1, so this is a rather late
> gripe, but it's still what I want.
> 
> Even if "chat" is forever lost to ppp, I ask you all to consider your naming
> carefully.  Those ANSI C people care about their name space.  Does POSIX?
> I think we should too.
> 
> Stephen (Concerned Conservationist) McKay.
> 
The chat program ala uucp stole the name a long time ago.  The ppp chat uses the
same format and thus deserves the name.  It may even be the uucp code.

Boyd

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 Boyd Faulkner                                  faulkner@isd.tandem.com 
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