[dev] Black/Whitelist naming

[Marcus I. Ryan]

Not to mention the main reason we've never changed it: you can "translate" the
terms to other terms for an existing language.  See the Horde Admin FAQ
4.1.3: http://www.horde.org/faq/admin/print.php#c5

If that ISP is concerned, they can change the phrases for their site without
requiring the rest of the world to make the change with them.

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Marcus I. Ryan, marcus at horde.org
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Quoting Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu>:

> Quoting John Morrissey <jwm at horde.net>:
>
> | 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.'
>
> This has come up several times before, and we have always decided to keep
> the current naming system.  It continues to boil down to two points:
>
> 1. Blacklist/Whitelist has aboslutely *nothing* to do with racial
> prejudice.
>  See the list archives for further discussion (BTW, if anyone has seen the
> letter from a supposed "respected" scholar stating that was sent to college
> administrators asking them to "join together" and stop the usage of the
> term, it is complete bullshit.  Unfortunately people at my university were
> persuaded by this letter without even looking at the facts, but I
> digress...)
>
> 2. By definition, blacklist and whitelist _exactly_ describe the
> functionality that these terms perform.  If you don't believe me, look at
> the definitions: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=white%20list,
> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=blacklist.
>
> This being said, there is no need to rehash arguments that have occurred
> elsewhere -- http://mla.libertine.org/tmda-users/2002-05/msg00228.html
>
> michael
>
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> The University of Colorado at Boulder
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