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From: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Christophe Pettus <[email protected]>
Cc: Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
Cc: ourdiaspora <[email protected]>
Cc: David G. Johnston <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: community social media
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:04:53 +0200
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On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 9:25 PM Christophe Pettus <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> > On Sep 26, 2020, at 12:17, Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 9/26/20 11:05 AM, ourdiaspora wrote:
> >> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> >> On Saturday, September 26, 2020 5:04 PM, David G. Johnston <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 3:11 AM ourdiaspora <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Mail list readers,
> >>>>
> >>>> Firstly, within the mailing list web pages, references to
> "blacklist"???
> >>>
> >>> Maybe provide a link to where and a suggested alternative wording.
> >>>
> >> See title 'Manage email addresses' after sign-in to your postgresql web
> site account
> >> "allowed", "dis-allowed" could suffice
> >
> > Still not sure what the issue is.
>
> On this page:
>
>         https://lists.postgresql.org/manage/
>
> In the section "Manage email addresses", the text reads in part:
>
>         You can also blacklist your own email address from the lists.
>
> "Blacklist" is an increasingly disfavored term.  I think "block" or
> "disallow" are both reasonable alternatives.
>
> I'm moving this from -advocacy to -www, since that's a more appropriate
> list to discuss the change.
>
>
There is already work in progress to get this replaced. There are some
backend considerations as well which is why it's not just a search/replace
(and not fixing those would make it inconsistent), but it's been on the
list for a while to get sorted out so it's definitely on people's radar.

-- 
 Magnus Hagander
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