Hi,

I haven't found a bug tracker on http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ or
http://sourceforge.net/projects/backuppc/, so I initially filed the
following issue against the Debian package where I ran into it
(https://bugs.debian.org/808241):

One of the mails BackupPC can send uses the abbreviation "IS" in its
template. I assume it is meant as abbreviation of "IT Support":

# fgrep -r " IS " /usr/share/backuppc
/usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Lang/uk.pm:network during the last $days days 
you should contact IS to find
/usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Lang/ru.pm:network during the last $days days 
you should contact IS to find
/usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Lang/ja.pm:network during the last $days days 
you should contact IS to find
/usr/share/backuppc/lib/BackupPC/Lang/en.pm:network during the last $days days 
you should contact IS to find

Position in the source code (en.pm):
https://sources.debian.net/src/backuppc/3.3.1-1/lib/BackupPC/Lang/en.pm/#L1303

In other mail templates, "computer support" is used instead, e.g. here:
https://sources.debian.net/src/backuppc/3.3.1-1/lib/BackupPC/Lang/en.pm/#L1270-L1271

Since "IS" never was a very common abbreviation for "IT Support"
(usually just "IT" is used instead) and the abbreviation "IS" is
currently associated with a completely different (and politically hot)
topic, I strongly recommend to replace those four occurrences of "IS"
with "computer support" as in the other mail templates.

P.S.: We only noticed this because it has been reported to our IT
helpdesk by a BackupPC user who got such a mail and thought it was a
very unlucky typo. (Our common local abbreviation for IT support groups
is "ISG" and the user thought we missed the "G".)

                Kind regards, Axel Beckert
-- 
Axel Beckert <[email protected]>       support: +41 44 633 26 68
IT Services Group, HPT H 6                  voice: +41 44 633 41 89
Departement of Physics, ETH Zurich
CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland                http://nic.phys.ethz.ch/

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