I thought we already beat this camel very very dead.
In fact, I'm sure of it.
Please leave this message alone. It's nice to hear your opinion, Ben, but
I have a serious interest in NOT reawakening the flame war we finally
managed to end.
I expect not to hear any further public responses on this thread. Ben, if
you wish to respond to this message, keep it private to me, please.
R.
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001, Ben Tilly wrote:
> To all of those who are offended at the choice of
> the word "smoking" in the name of the project, I
> recommend thinking carefully about what the project
> is doing.
>
> The purpose is to have many people regularly
> build Perl and smoke out smoldering bugs. But the
> name apparently makes people fume.
>
> If this is not done then these smoldering bugs will
> escape, causing many burns among users, resulting in
> even more people fuming!
>
> Therefore by causing a little smoke now, you prevent
> much more smoke later. Smoking them out is a dirty
> job, but we have to burn the crop^Wbugs to the
> ground sometime, and it does less damage done now.
>
> If the name still bothers people, think of this as
> the fumigation effort. We all understand that quite
> well that it is not healthy to be where fumigators
> are working, but it sure nails those bugs!
>
> Now can we discuss something other than the (IMNSHO
> perfect) name?
>
> Cheers,
> Ben
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