2014-01-31 Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]>:

> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Radu Gheorghe <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > 2014-01-31 Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]>:
> >
> > > OK, thanks everyone for the feedback. Much appreciated!
> > >
> > > So changing the name is the crazy (and bad) idea that I thought it is.
> > But
> > > thankfully the thread brought up other pressing problems.
> > >
> > > On the name: obviously, it needs to stay the same. I have taken the
> > > liberty, though, to change the tagline and capitalization of rsyslog.
> > Right
> > > now, I write "RSysLog - a *r*ocket-fast *sys*tem for *log* processing".
> > It
> > > follows the good ole industry standard way of renaming things without
> > > changing the name ;) It's not final yet and if anyone has a good
> argument
> > > why it would be a really terrible idea, we can change this back.
> > Otherwise,
> > > I'll roll this out over the next couple of weeks.
> > >
> >
> > I think rsyslog or Rsyslog is what people know and expect. RSysLog is
> > trying to hard IMO.
> >
>
> comment appreciated, but if that's the only concern, I'd like to go for it.
> Especially if it awakes people. I'd intentionally like to break the "mental
> syslog connection" and if SysLog helps in that sense, that's good.
>
>
I think it doesn't break anything, because very few people will understand
what it means (because R, Sys and Log are all abbreviations). I would
expect most people to be ignoring/get annoyed by the strange capitals.
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