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I thought the G in DIG  stood for ‘grepper’ as in to use the grep utility.

Am I wrong?

> On Jul 15, 2017, at 1:42 AM, Jeremy Bicha via RT <bind9-confidential@isc.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Fri Jul 14 23:42:34 2017: Request 45559 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by jbicha@ubuntu.com
>       Queue: bind9-confidential
>     Subject: Modernize 'dig' acronym expansion
>       Owner: Nobody
>  Requestors: jbicha@ubuntu.com
>      Status: new
> Ticket <URL: https://bugs.isc.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=45559 >
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I believe the acronym for 'dig' is needlessly sexual and offensive.
> Let's update the acronym.
> 
> Compare these definitions:
> https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/groper
> https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/getter
> 
> I have a patch I'll submit once a bug number has been assigned.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeremy Bicha
> 
> 

Victoria Risk
Internet Systems Consortium
vicky@isc.org