On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 05:22:33PM -0700, Russell Senior wrote: > > "WHITE-list" is harder, many more variants in play. > > "Allow-list" is one alternative (same number of letters); > > "Pass-list" is faster to say (same number of syllables) > > In the Personal Telco Project context, we don't have a "blacklist" so > that doesn't even come up, but we do have a "whitelist", that is a set > of mac addresses that don't need to navigate the spash page. For the > last several years I have been using pre-authorized, which is more > descriptive of what it is and is much less likely to be misunderstood.
That is EXACTLY the right approach - you use what some programmers call a "whitelist", but you describe it with a beneficiary-friendly word. I bet that helps you be more helpful to others. Perhaps that's the clue - use helpful and specific CLIENT- ORIENTED words, not programming-technique-specific words. If our design focus is on the user/client/customer task, rather than a few tools we are overly-familiar with, we will make better products and discover useful new tools. And THAT is what the plug list is for. Thank you, Russell! Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected]
