[dev] Blacklist/Whitelist Name

[Jan Schneider]

Please keep discussions on the list.

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

> No problem...I did a cursory search and didn't see an exact match.  
> Would you happen to know a simple way to make the changes?  Currently
> I'm looking at diff and patch utilities, but I haven't used them much.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.

http://wiki.horde.org/FAQ/Admin/Config?referrer=FAQ%2FAdmin#toc5

> Jan Schneider wrote:
>> 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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