On 10 Jul 2020, at 01:38, Olivier <olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote: > Axb <axb.li...@gmail.com> writes: > >> the US problems won't be fixed with renaming B&W lists. >> Seriously.. you have more important issues... > > While thet change in names will not fix any societal issue, for a > product like SpamAssassin that relies heavily on plugins (including some > plugins that may have been developped locally, long time ago, by someone > who is not working there anymore) and that is > also embeded (like in amavis) these sort of changes may break a lot of > implementations, to the point that people will be reluctant to upgrade.
If people are so fragile that they have to hold on to terms that are extremely offensive to some of their peers, they will get more spam. Oh noes. > And if SA is not upgraded, the user base will shrink and it may lead to > the death of SA. If it cannot function without being offensive to many people, then so be it. Allow/deny I think are better than welcome/block, but I don't care. Allow/block might be better too. -- "He is of Asgard, and he is my brother" > He killed 80 people in 2 days. "He's adopted."
