Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!columbia!cunixc!lih
From: lih@cunixc.columbia.edu (Andrew Lih)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ** Stuffit ** vs Packit
Summary: Why does the name make a diff?
Keywords: Stuffit, Packit, stupid
Message-ID: <323@cunixc.columbia.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 87 21:40:51 GMT
References: <361@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: lih@cunixc.columbia.edu (Andrew Lih)
Organization: Columbia University Incorporated
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In article <361@ut-emx.UUCP> jcc@ut-emx.UUCP (Chris Cooley) writes:
>...are blind!
>
>Here at The University of Texas, it has been decided NOT to support 
>StuffIt on our public domain distribution directory MicroLib.  Why?
>Because of it's name.  Sadly, we'll be using PackIt "...until it 
>[StuffIt] changes its name."

I am tempted to flame someone for this :-) but I will try to give the
poster a chance to explain this one...

Why is the name Stuffit inappropriate for the MicroLab?
                ^^^^^^^

Is this conservative Texas mentality?
Is it offensive to some racial group?
Does it bring back thoughts of lost loves?

Why?