Delivered-To: bind9-confidential@bugs.isc.org To: bind9-confidential@isc.org X-RT-Original-Encoding: utf-8 From marka@isc.org Sat Jul 15 22:48:57 2017 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on mx.pao1.isc.org References: <20170715181542.GB64927@isc.org> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 content-type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: "Mark Andrews" X-Original-To: bind9-confidential@bugs.isc.org Subject: Re: [ISC-Bugs #45559] Modernize 'dig' acronym expansion Received: from mx.pao1.isc.org (mx.pao1.isc.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:0:2::2b]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx.pao1.isc.org", Issuer "COMODO RSA Organization Validation Secure Server CA" (not verified)) by bugs.isc.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 72A68D78AE8 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 22:48:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zmx1.isc.org (zmx1.isc.org [149.20.0.20]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.pao1.isc.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ACC283493A5 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 22:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zmx1.isc.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zmx1.isc.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 974F5160072 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 22:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zmx1.isc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83E95160075 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 22:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zmx1.isc.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zmx1.isc.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id KlsBvr9G84SN for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 22:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rock.dv.isc.org (c27-253-115-14.carlnfd2.nsw.optusnet.com.au [27.253.115.14]) by zmx1.isc.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 396A1160072 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2017 22:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rock.dv.isc.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by rock.dv.isc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 586B57E774D7 for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2017 08:48:47 +1000 (AEST) Message-ID: <20170715224847.586B57E774D7@rock.dv.isc.org> X-RT-Interface: Email In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 15 Jul 2017 18:15:46 +0000." Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 08:48:47 +1000 X-RT-Incoming-Encryption: Not encrypted Return-Path: RT-Message-ID: Content-Length: 1450 In message , "Evan Hunt via RT" writes: > On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 04:01:26PM +0000, Vicky Risk via RT wrote: > > I thought the G in DIG stood for ‘grepper’ as in to use the grep utility. > > > > Am I wrong? > > Jeremy is correct; it is documented as "groper". The first version > of "dig" was written a long time ago, and while the word "grope" has taken > on some new connotations in US English in the decades since then, I believe > it was always intended in the dictionary sense of "feeling around blindly > in the dark". > > I'm not particularly enthusiastic about revising history because what was > at the time a slang usage has become commonplace, but Jeremy isn't the > first person to complain about it, either. Maybe we just don't need to > expand the abbreviation in the man page anymore. Removing the definition *is* re-writting history. That is how it is done. Things that you don't want to be known are just not said anymore. Instead add a [1] to groper and put the definition of the word in the man page. "[1] Definition: One who feels around blindly in the dark, searches for answers." This is just as important as the D in BIND meaning Domain, not Daemon. Gropers are also a type of fish. Google for Sydney Groper / Blue Groper. -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org