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Improve terminology used #1186

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philrandal opened this issue Jun 10, 2020 · 0 comments
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Improve terminology used #1186

philrandal opened this issue Jun 10, 2020 · 0 comments
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MailWatch, like many other products, uses archaic and racially offensive terminology.

Terms such as blacklist and whitelist should be replaced with blocklist and allowlist as per the UK's NCSC's guidance:

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/terminology-its-not-black-and-white

c.f. the equivalent spamassassin bug report:

https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7826
This was referenced Jun 12, 2020
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First step to get mailwatch#1186 worked out
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