[imp] The Blacklist - Again

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting John Bradley <John.Bradley at plattsburgh.edu>:

| Hi All,
|       I found a brief discussion of this from last February, but was
| wondering if there is any new information on it.  We, too, have been
| asked to consider an alternate term for "Blacklist."  This leads me to a
| couple of questions:
| 
|       1.  Does any one know of plans to address this in a future release?
|           Perhaps making the name configurable?

Directions on how to change:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=imp&m=101456090624326&w=2

Just a note too, on the origins of the term 'blacklist' (this was from 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=imp&m=101443988106040&w=2):

Blacklist, blacksheep, black magic... "those terms developed long before 
European whites were aware of a black race. And they arose, not out of 
racism, but religious beliefs that associated black, with the dark 
underworld, with hell and the devil."

With this background, there doesn't seem to be any reason to alter the 
name 'blacklist' in the IMP distribution.  As always, you are free to do 
what you want to on your local installation

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu]
The University of Colorado at Boulder