An important part of etymology is the of use of words in the perspective of the modern world.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6148600/ Many of the discussions I've read on this have views on either side of the argument and tend to go on for a very long time. Personally, it's a keyword that gets changed in code and aliased back for backwards compatibility - as long as it all works, that's ok with me. Paul On 10/07/2020, 09:31, "Dan Malm" <d...@one.com> wrote: On 2020-07-10 10:19, Paul Stead wrote: > How would you explain to a 5 year old why being on a "blacklist" is seen as bad and a "whitelist" is seen as good? > If all of computer science are supposed to be understood by 5 year olds we're going to have much bigger problems to explain than blacklists... But sure, I'll give it a shot. You're afraid of the dark are't you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacklisting#Origins_of_the_term The term has nothing to do with race. -- BR/Mvh. Dan Malm, Systems Engineer, One.com -- Paul Stead Senior Engineer Zen Internet Direct: 01706 902018 Web: zen.co.uk Winner of 'Services Company of the Year' at the UK IT Industry Awards This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. Zen Internet Limited may monitor email traffic data to manage billing, to handle customer enquiries and for the prevention and detection of fraud. We may also monitor the content of emails sent to and/or from Zen Internet Limited for the purposes of security, staff training and to monitor quality of service. Zen Internet Limited is registered in England and Wales, Sandbrook Park, Sandbrook Way, Rochdale, OL11 1RY Company No. 03101568 VAT Reg No. 686 0495 01
