Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!haven!mimsy!tank!eecae!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!sei.cmu.edu!krvw From: ttidca.TTI.COM!hollombe%sdcsvax@ucsd.edu (The Polymath) Newsgroups: comp.virus Subject: Re: Virus Naming Message-ID: <0001.8909011255.AA07043@ge.sei.cmu.edu> Date: 25 Aug 89 18:27:28 GMT Sender: Virus Discussion List Lines: 21 Approved: krvw@sei.cmu.edu EICHTER@Venus.YCC.Yale.Edu (Jerry Leichter) writes: }The closest match from the traditional sciences is clearly with }medicine. The person who gets to choose the name is the person who }publishes the first article which describes the disease in some }detail. ... }... When the discoverer doesn't choose a name, the disease }often gets named after him (Wernickie's Aphasia). I think this is the way to go for simple psychological reasons. Naming a virus for its discoverer is a strong discouragement to the virus writers. Imagine the frustration of writing what you think is a really nifty virus, only to have someone else's name associated with it. Not much incentive there. There's more than one way to fight this war. - -- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, hollombe@ttidca.tti.com) Illegitimati Nil Citicorp(+)TTI Carborundum 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (213) 452-9191, x2483 Santa Monica, CA 90405 {csun|philabs|psivax}!ttidca!hollombe