I would argue that welcome is better than allow in many contexts, including SpamAssassin. After all, w.*list isn't just used to indicate something is allowed, but to indicate that we actively want to receive the email in question (by lowering its score).
You allow a maintenance worker into your apartment, but you welcome a friend On Tue, 14 Jul 2020, Kevin A. McGrail 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. 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 10:08 AM Marc Roos <m.r...@f1-outsourcing.eu> wrote: > I like the change from whitelist/blacklist to allowlist/blocklist because it is more descriptive. Allow/deny list sounds more logical.
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