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From: dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (William David Haas)
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Subject: Re: Virus Naming
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Date: 3 Sep 89 18:58:31 GMT
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In article <0001.8909011255.AA07043@ge.sei.cmu.edu> ttidca.TTI.COM!hollombe%sdc
svax@ucsd.edu (The Polymath) writes:
<EICHTER@Venus.YCC.Yale.Edu (Jerry Leichter) writes:
<}... 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.

And then you will have virus writers 'discovering' their own work to
their name on it.