[dev] Black/Whitelist naming

John Morrissey jwm at horde.net
Mon Nov 10 19:00:29 PST 2003


I have a large IMP installation at an ISP and a user recently mentioned that
the terms 'blacklist' and 'whitelist' might be interpreted as racially
insensitive.

What do people think about changing them? I was thinking 'Safe List' and
'Block List.'

john
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