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title: "Thanks for your help"
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canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/17/thanks-for-your-help.html"
published: "2003-11-17T12:16:00"
updated: "2003-11-17T12:16:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Thanks for all the great feedback on my “Renaming The Regulator” dilemma. It seems that most of you actually like the current name, so who am I to argue with success? Thanks. And please post comments suggestions of…"
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# Thanks for your help

By Roy Osherove November 17, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published November 17, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Thanks for all the great feedback on my “Renaming The Regulator” dilemma. It seems that most of you actually like the current name, so who am I to argue with success? Thanks. And please post comments suggestions of things and you'd like to see in the next versions. Heh. Should I start giving them out code names like “Francisco”, “Junebug”, “Salmon”....

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Nov 21, 2003

    ### [The Letter I should have written back](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/21/the-letter-i-should-have-written-back.html)

- Nov 21, 2003

    ### [The Regulator gets its first "real" review](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/21/the-regulator-gets-its-first-quotrealquot-review.html)

- Nov 15, 2003

    ### [Help me rename The Regulator](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/15/help-me-rename-the-regulator.html)

- Nov 12, 2003

    ### [Technical writing - The complete idiot's guide](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/11/12/technical-writing-the-complete-idiots-guide.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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