Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
On Mar 9, 2005, at 8:05, Brian Grossman wrote:
But isn't the high_perf branch going to be integrated into the qpsmtpd once
it's shaken out? If so, then I say let's just stick to qpsmtpd, which has
name recognition and whose functionality is clear from the name.
qpsmtpd was for "qmail perl smtpd" if I recall correctly. The very first version was just a perl implementation of qmail-smtpd.
Of course it's not just for qmail anymore and more importantly qpsmtpd is too hard to say out loud.
It took me a while to realize, because for the first year or two I'd rarely talk about it. When I did I would usually just say "my mail server", but that doesn't really scale. ;-)
Replacing qpsmtpd with another hard-to-say-strange-acronym isn't going to be an improvement.
I'm not entirely convinced about Quench either, but it's the best proposal so far and it's growing on me. As long as no other software has the name I'm not too worried about being able to Google it. I'm sure the pagerank will get high enough that people will find it.
Maybe we could use Quench as the short project name, but encourage people to use Quench SMTPD or Quench Mail in links, articles and such.
- ask
Name suggestion or not, what I thought when I first heard of qpsmtpd and ever since is "qperld", a mail daemon entirely written in perl is incomparably superior for being flexible and adaptable to fight spam, because it's all perl and because it's open and easy to change for the coders who will be attracted to tinker with it because it's open and in perl. It's all the more open for being written in perl--much easier to read and tinker and test and much more powerful tools, far better regex, all the module objects.
That's what perl in qperld would say, not that it's a perl hanger on, but that perl represents flexibility and mobility and firepower on the battlefield against spam, and what could be like perl for adaptability? queue perl d, if "q" for queue, "smtp" is redundant. I also thought qpd but "p" doesn't say "perl" as well as "perl", and "qd", which I like because it stakes a claim as the one and only for all time queue-daemon. You wouldn't have a right to "qd" as just another mta.
-Bob
