Re: Contradictiory directions

[Lele Gaifax]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>
>> The reason is that the world has moved on to the new terms.
>
> It certainly hasn't: this was the first time I ever came across the term
> "allowlist" being used, and it was in the form of an email, not code.
>
> Even if the world has "moved on" (which is hardly a given), software
> (Emacs even more so) has historically used the "old" terms, which there
> is no need to change.  So as I said, can we please keep the situation
> simple by using the terminology which we have always used, which is to
> say, "blacklist" and "whitelist".

The world is slowly moving toward a more "inclusive" and "politically correct"
terminology, because using "black" and "white" for such things may sound
inappropriate, as "master"/"slave" in other contexts.

ciao, lele.
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