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 <mhbalmer%gmail.com@localhost> 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 <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>:
>>
>>
>> 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