[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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