On 6/6/2020 11:00 AM, Ian Evans wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 6, 2020, 10:28 AM Kevin A. McGrail, <kmcgr...@pccc.com > <mailto:kmcgr...@pccc.com>> wrote: > > Thanks for the reminder on this. The Apache SpamAssassin project > voted to do this change on May 3rd and I'm taking the baton to > bring it to fruition. > > > > Kevin, that's interesting that SpamAssassin had already voted on this > back in May. As Larry just illustrated, some will view Leah Culver's > software industry proposal as an example of political correctness. > Others will argue the etymology is based on light and dark and > religion and not race. As I said, her post was food for thought. > Whether people want to ponder the menu is up to the programmers for now.
Our project didn't disagree it's political correctness we just don't feel there is any problem with being correct. Leah's note was not the impetus for this, it was this article on April 5th that I brought to the attention of our project management committee. https://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-ncsc-to-stop-using-whitelist-and-blacklist-due-to-racial-stereotyping/ <https://www.zdnet.com/article/uk-ncsc-to-stop-using-whitelist-and-blacklist-due-to-racial-stereotyping/> After discussion for a month, a vote was called and passed with all +1's. My only regret is that I didn't think to do this some 20 years ago. Regards, KAM
