Your association is just antiquated. I can't remember exactly when but blocklist has been getting used to replace the racially-charged nature of blacklist. Here's a public example from 2012: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPAMASSASSIN/DnsBlocklistsInclusionPolicy
This verbiage change isn't new and the impetus wasn't political nor American-driven. It's just the right time to do it AND we have 4.0's release giving us the perfect opportunity. Regards, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Member, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:28 AM Marc Roos <m.r...@f1-outsourcing.eu> wrote: > > > > > Yeah, allow/deny is more logical but using them requires all acronyms > to change. > > After some trial and error, we dialed in the changes to welcome and > block which > > also keeps other terminology like RBL, DNSBL, WLBL, etc. consistent > > so there is less upheaval. > > I associate BL with blacklist. If that is how the general perception is, > and most of what is written on the internet is relating to, I don't see > how you can maintain those acronyms. > Allow/deny is also commonly used in linux so one could argue, it is > adapting to standards. > > > > > >
