Hi, as the author of the

Hi, as the author of the fetchgals module I'd just like to stick up for my work a little...

...The actual module itself is a simple shell and has NO pornographic 'ability' or content of its own. This is the single only reason it has been permitted to be published on the Drupal.org website. All the module actually does is to pass arguments to an external perl script called 'fetchgals' which is available for download (for free obviously) from Sourceforge. Why I'm telling you this is because you seem to be under the impression that either myself or Drupal are responsible for the naming of the fetchgals spider script. This is quite incorrect... And to be honest I have no idea who wrote it; I don't think it's even being developed any more as the last update to it was on May 25, 2004 which was quite some time ago...

Anyways, I'm straying from the point here which is regarding the name of the module... Whilst I share your view that the name 'fetchgals' is blatantly a Benny Hill stereotyped name, I couldn't very well name the Drupal module anything different. I mean, you wouldn't call the gmap module 'That Google Map module thing' would you? The name needs to reflect the program/ script that it interacts with else it becomes misleading or at worst, irrelevant.

One cool thing I will mention here is that I do get feedback from users about the module. Well over half the comments and questions I get are from women (or maybe men posing as women?!) the rest are from corporations/ site owners asking how to automatically tag the links with affiliate IDs so they can make free money... Oh the internet... How it pains me... Everyone wants something for nothing :o(

Pobster (just trying to restore your faith in the goodness of Drupal!)

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