Ethereal-dev: [ethereal-dev] Names for preferences - short or long?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 15:53:10 -0700
When I added a preference for the "Decode the TOS field of an IP packet
as a DiffServ field", I gave it the name "ip.decode_tos_as_diffserv";
that's a bit of a long name, and it might be considered a pain to type

	{t}ethereal -o ip.decode_tos_as_diffserv:false ...

Gilbert's option for placing AH payload in a subtree also has a long
name - "ah.place_ah_payload_in_subtree".

I could see perhaps shortening the former to "ip.diffserv" and the
latter to "ah.payload_in_subtree", for example.

Do people think the short names are better, the long names are better,
or "none of the above"?