[dev] Blacklist/Whitelist Name

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Adam Sommer <sommer at salem.edu>:

> 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.

Short answer: No.
Long answer: It's a dead horse, please check the mailing list archives  
for very lengthy discussions in the past.

Jan.

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