> racially-charged nature of blacklist There is no such thing.
Black list originates from black book, that is a book with white pages and black cover, with black ink, where sins are listed in haven for you to be judged upon. On the colour of the cover, it is black because that's how old leather turns out to be. On the colour of ink, try writing white ink on black paper if you can... Stop using SA to push your political agenda. When v4 comes out, do not dare writing that *we* decided to *change* blacklist into blocklist because of the "racially-charged nature" of it, because it is not, because we said so, and because you are forcing it. Have the courage to put your own name under your own decision, do not blame us for it. -------- Original Message -------- On 14 Jul 2020, 16:48, Kevin A. McGrail < kmcgr...@apache.org> wrote: 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.
