Changing bot nick

Marc Randolph mrand at pobox.com
Tue Jan 12 15:24:07 GMT 2010


On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Daniel Roesler <diafygi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:34 PM, matthew byers <faintstlsaint at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Team,
>> Well it seems we have had a sort of nick collision with the folks down in
>> the #latex and #context channels. Seems they originally had the nick of
>> TexBot but never registered it on freenode...then we started using it for
>> our bot. Well they have built their entire channels for support around this
>> bot and the maker of the bot came to texas channel and politely asked to
>> have the nick back. So its down to a vote on either keeping the nick TexBot
>> or voting on another nick. We were using Tex there for last week but the
>> nick TXbot has been brought up also. So this email is to ask for input on
>> new nick names and voting on new nick. This will be open for two days then a
>> decision shall be reached on wed.
>> Thanks
>
> I vote for TXbot. Abbreviation should be favored over truncation.
>

TexasBot seems a little long.  While somewhat funny, bootBot isn't
much shorter, and not as descriptive.
I think TXbot is a fine name.

   Marc



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