Re: [External] Re: The historical roots of our computer terms

Thanks you!! > On Jun 8, 2020, at 2:41 PM, Wietse Venema wrote: > > Please stop complaining or be deleted. I am not seeing any counter > arguments that haven't already been made in many other project > contexts. > > Wietse

Re: [External] Re: The historical roots of our computer terms

Please stop complaining or be deleted. I am not seeing any counter arguments that haven't already been made in many other project contexts. Wietse

Re: [External] Re: The historical roots of our computer terms

On 6/8/2020 9:54 AM, vi...@vheuser.com wrote: > > On 2020/06/08 09:31 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: >> On 6/8/2020 9:06 AM, John Dale wrote: >>> Why does this agitate people?  Because if the time spend on this >>> change had been used to fix an actual deficiency, people of color who >>> use the

Re: [External] Re: The historical roots of our computer terms

On 2020-06-08 09:54, vi...@vheuser.com wrote: > PS  Red-list offends native Americans and Green-list offends > environmentalists. And yellow and brown are out. How about mauve and teal? Or, maybe we get back to this issue after solving world hunger and homelessness. -- D'Arcy J.M. Cain System

Re: [External] Re: The historical roots of our computer terms

On 2020/06/08 09:31 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 6/8/2020 9:06 AM, John Dale wrote: Why does this agitate people?  Because if the time spend on this change had been used to fix an actual deficiency, people of color who use the software would have been served with value, not just platitudes.

Re: [External] Re: The historical roots of our computer terms

On 6/8/2020 9:06 AM, John Dale wrote: > Why does this agitate people?  Because if the time spend on this > change had been used to fix an actual deficiency, people of color who > use the software would have been served with value, not just platitudes. Sounds like a lot of pontificating.  Can you

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On 6/8/2020 8:37 AM, Phil Stracchino wrote: > The color is widely and somewhat sardonically known as 'bleen' or 'grue'. See, that's just wrong. We all know what a Grue is... Regards, KAM https://zork.fandom.com/wiki/Grue

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On 6/6/2020 11:00 AM, Ian Evans wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 10:28 AM Kevin A. McGrail, > wrote: > > Thanks for the reminder on this.  The Apache SpamAssassin project > voted to do this change on May 3rd and I'm taking the baton to > bring it to

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On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 10:28 AM Kevin A. McGrail, wrote: > Thanks for the reminder on this. The Apache SpamAssassin project voted to > do this change on May 3rd and I'm taking the baton to bring it to fruition. > > > > > Kevin, that's interesting that SpamAssassin had already voted on this back

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Thanks for the reminder on this.  The Apache SpamAssassin project voted to do this change on May 3rd and I'm taking the baton to bring it to fruition. Regards, KAM On 6/6/2020 10:20 AM, Wietse Venema wrote: > Ian Evans: >> Food for thought from the co-author of OAuth and oEmbed. How easy would