Why does everyone always have to get so combative. If changing the rule names a little to avoid offending the easily offended, it does no harm. It is the same rule after all. What it is called is of no real consequence.
This is because not everyone is offended by the same thing. What does not offend one may offend the other -- and what if the replacement names turn out to be even more offensive to someone else? Do you change the changed names as well? What about other rule names? Someone might be offended in seeing the word "porn" in their test headers. Someone else might be offended at seeing "BILLION_DOLLARS" (for example) because they might believe it to be indicative of their less than perfect financial status.
My point is that debating and arguing over rule names that adequately describe what it is they are designed to catch is absurd. Call a spade a spade for Pete's sake! If only *one* person doesn't believe a name is appropriate for their environment, SpamAssassin is open sourced meaning *anyone* can go in and *modify* it. This is a slippery slope we're going down and it's just another example of political correctness gone awry. As I mentioned before, what one person finds offensive, someone else might not. And I seriously don't believe that it is worth the time going through and changing *rule names* to make them more benign but less descriptive. The suggestion was "BIGGER_BITS" -- which is fine to me -- but the problem is that this is a convoluted alteration of the rulename. Someone who does not speak English natively might have trouble understanding (in English) what this rule is for, and I don't believe this is fair.
Furthermore, why waste developers' time over something that really does not address the REAL problem -- which is why we are all here anyway. In case you haven't noticed, that problem is *SPAM* and NOT rule names!
I don't mean to flame anyone but this issue is really starting to irritate me simply because it is the epitome of all that political correctness has done to destroy our society. "Screw political correctness," is my personal motto and source code is free speech!
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