<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body ><div>I asked if it was a NASCAR thing bc if DNF means did not finish, it must have something to do with racing. I have a lot of experience in running and the leagues and road races I've ran in never used the term afaik. I have also watched the Boston Marathon in person more than once and I've never heard the term. So I thought maybe it was from auto racing, and I thought Bryan was from NC where NASCAR is quite popular so maybe it is a regional term. There was no negative connotation meant by asking if it was associated with NASCAR, I was just grasping at straws since I'd never heard of it.</div><div><br></div><div>Either way it really seems like racing jargon to me, not part of the general lexicon, and not really a concern. If it is a concern the correct place to bring it up is with the developers, not here. </div><div><br></div><div>~m</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px; ">Sent from my phone, which is not an iphone.</span><br><br><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: inode0 <inode0@gmail.com> </div><div>Date:02/06/2015 11:11 AM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Fedora Marketing team <marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: DNF Article </div><div><br></div>On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Scott Dowdle <dowdle@montanalinux.org> wrote:<br>> Greetings,<br>><br>> ----- Original Message -----<br>>> It isn't a NASCAR thing and it is very commonly used for Did Not<br>>> Finish (DNS is commonly used for Did Not Start similarly). Do a search<br>>> for Boston Marathon and DNF and you'll see it all over the place.<br>><br>> So friggin' what? You'll remember that our update program is called "fedup". Comparatively, at least this is an acronym.<br>> Now if dnf was renamed to fubar or snafu... then we might have a problem. :)<br><br>I don't care what it is named and it makes no difference to me one way<br>or another. Just confirming that for a lot of people this is in fact<br>the first thing they will think of because it is in fact commonly used<br>this way. And it isn't some NASCAR thing, whatever that was intended<br>to convey.<br><br>John<br>-- <br>marketing mailing list<br>marketing@lists.fedoraproject.org<br>List info or to change your subscription:<br>https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing</body>