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  • Reason for renaming blacklist_recipients

    From Marco Moock@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 24 18:37:50 2022
    Hello,
    what was the reason for renaming blacklist_recipients to
    blocklist_recipients?

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    Marco

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  • From None@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 25 20:04:26 2022
    what was the reason for renaming blacklist_recipients to blocklist_recipients?


    :D I noticed it also. Afaic is an inappropriate association of the term blacklist with ethnicity just limited to the person who thinks like this.

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  • From Claus =?iso-8859-1?Q?A=DFmann?= @21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Tue Oct 25 14:52:26 2022
    Marco Moock wrote:

    what was the reason for renaming blacklist_recipients to blocklist_recipients?

    It was a decision by the owner of sendmail.

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  • From John McCue@21:1/5 to Marco Moock on Tue Oct 25 23:49:27 2022
    Marco Moock <[email protected]> wrote:
    Hello,
    what was the reason for renaming blacklist_recipients to blocklist_recipients?

    Seeing you are from Germany, I believe you are asking an
    honest question. In the US, "blacklist" can have some
    unpleasant connotations.

    FWIW, when I heard first heard the term "blacklist" many
    years ago, I had no idea what its meaning was. To me,
    "blocklist" has a more direct meaning in the English
    Language. And for people new to IT, they will know its
    meaning without any confusion.

    Regards

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    - Paraphrasing Star Wars

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to None on Tue Oct 25 12:20:13 2022
    On 10/25/22 12:04 PM, None wrote:
    :D I noticed it also. Afaic is an inappropriate association of the term blacklist with ethnicity just limited to the person who thinks like this.

    Sadly, the work effort to respond to this isn't limited. :-/



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  • From None@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 26 11:13:21 2022
    Hello,
    what was the reason for renaming blacklist_recipients to
    blocklist_recipients?

    Seeing you are from Germany, I believe you are asking an
    honest question. In the US, "blacklist" can have some
    unpleasant connotations.

    FWIW, when I heard first heard the term "blacklist" many
    years ago, I had no idea what its meaning was. To me,
    "blocklist" has a more direct meaning in the English
    Language. And for people new to IT, they will know its
    meaning without any confusion.


    I have always the impression that the US can't see past their own
    history. It is not just blacklist, it is the combination of blacklist
    and white list, opposites. This originates from 1000's of years BC.

    This is just a problem of a dumb and ignorant generation. Let's be
    honest, the one that associates colored people with the term blacklist,
    those people are the problem. And they don't start thinking differently
    when a term blocklist is being used.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang

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