$ grep -i ^black /usr/share/dict/words | wc
92 92 976
$ grep -i ^white /usr/share/dict/words | wc
70 70 725
It's an uphill climb, but naming
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html is one of two hard
things. Yes, we can do better.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:44 PM Christos Zoulas <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> When I wrote this in 2015 I did not consider the terms blacklist/whitelist
> offensive,
> or associated them with race. If as was going to name the program today I
> would
> have chosen differently; perhaps I would have chosen 'denylist' instead of
> 'blocklist',
> (I smirk because the spell-checker autocorrected blocklist to blacklist
> even when I had
> it in quotes and I had to change it back), but I would not have called it
> blacklist.
>
> I made the poor naming choice in 2015, and I needed to fix it. I decided
> to do it quickly,
> and I did not want to have a discussion about it -- I was going to do it
> anyway. I believe
> that as insignificant and annoying that change might seem to some, it is a
> move in the
> right direction and I hope that it will inspire/encourage others to make
> similar changes
> where appropriate.
>
> We should be all doing whatever we can to correct social/race/gender/sex
> injustices/prejudices around us, and every little bit helps.
>
> Best,
>
> christos
>
>
>
> > On Jun 15, 2020, at 3:02 PM, Marc Balmer <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > And you just do that based on you own opinion, without previous
> discussion, breaking existing confugurations, and all you have to offer is
> a „sorry for the inconvenience“?
> >
> > That inconvenience was not needed and nobody asked for it.
> >
> >> Am 15.06.2020 um 04:02 schrieb Christos Zoulas <[email protected]>:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello folks,
> >>
> >> I've renamed blacklist to blocklist, so if you are currently using it,
> >> you should rename things accordingly:
> >>
> >> - rc.conf variable
> >> - /var/db/blacklist.db file
> >> - npf table name
> >>
> >> Apologies for the inconvenience,
> >>
> >> christos
>
>
