[dev] Blacklist/Whitelist Name
Adam Sommer
sommer at salem.edu
Fri Dec 15 05:27:51 PST 2006
Hi all,
I just want to say thank you for the great application. I love the way
Horde allows you to integrate your own MTA and IMAP software, compared
to other Web Groupware applications that bundle everything separately.
Anyway, I just have a quick suggestion/question. I'd like to start off
by saying that I personally have absolutely no problem with the way
things currently are, but others at my organization do. The "issue" we
currently have is the labeling of the Black/White list. Upon demoing
the Horde, Imp, Kronolith, suite to our users one of the first things
they commented on was the label of Black and White. Their
interpretation of the label was that it was racist or could be construed
as racist.
I realize that those are industry standard labels for those features,
and the Horde developers had no intention of them being interpreted as
racist. Anyway, before we could go "live" with Horde we had to rename
in every file Blacklist to Blocklist and Whitelist to Allowlist. The
beauty of free/opensource software allowed us to do that and I'd like to
thank you again for writing these applications.
Having said all this I was wondering if you'd consider making the
changes upstream? If not it's not a terrible issue. I know this
question is probably retarded, but it I guess it never hurts to ask.
Thank you once again,
Adam
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