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From: jfbruno@rodan.acs.syr.edu (John F. Bruno)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: poolfix3, poolfix4; naming conventions.
Message-ID: <3236@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 9 May 90 15:09:09 GMT
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In article <1990May9.042912.22032@wam.umd.edu> dmb@wam.umd.edu (David M. Baggett) writes:
>grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas) writes:
>>Claus Brod has made some good points in a very reasonable way.  If his
>>pool fixing program does what he says it does, and doesn't hurt anything
>>else, then I can see no reason why it should not be distributed.

[stuff deleted]

>The problem was not with the program itself, but with the author's 
>attitude.

[ stuff deleted] 

>The original poolfix4 posting was one of the most pompous and obnoxious
>messages I've ever seen in this newsgroup.  There was more of an
>"I'm a better hacker, Nyyaah!" feeling there than an "I'm trying to help
>out" attitude.  If I'd been Allan I would have been annoyed too.
>
>My AUTO folder has poolfix3.prg in it.
>
>Dave Baggett
>dmb@wam.umd.edu

I think everyone is missing the major problem with the poolfix4. The choice
of "poolfix4" implies that it is the next version of "poolfix3" and since
poolfix3 came from Atari, people will assume poolfix4 also came from Atari. 
I'm sure that some people would be confused by this and go to Alan Pratt for
support/questions/whatever... I don't think it matters how pompous and 
obnoxious the original post was.  If the original name was "POOLPTCH" or
something like that, I bet nobody would have complained at all (unless of
course it didn't work).

---jb