As 'allowlist' and 'denylist' are self-explaning, this is a valuable change as 
it will save time for newbies in future. Independent if any racist background 
or not.

Thank you, Wietse!

Am 24. Februar 2021 19:43:22 MEZ schrieb Kenneth Irving <k...@fq.edu.uy>:
>Completely agree with Jaroslaw. This is absolutely ridiculous and a waste 
>of time.
>
>best regards
>
>Kenneth
>
>On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote:
>
>> Dnia 24.02.2021 o godz. 12:12:12 Wietse Venema pisze:
>>> Postfix version 3.6 deprecates terminology that implies white is
>>> better than black.
>>
>> -1
>>
>> I already wrote when there was a discussion about it that changing this is a
>> waste of time and effort.
>>
>> "Blacklist" and "whitelist" terms never had anything to do with black/white
>> race. Their source is completely different (it's obvious for everyone who
>> has basic cultural and philosophical education), and probably nobody in the
>> world associates it with any racial context, except some oversensitive group
>> of Americans.
>>
>> In my country there is a proverb, which literally translated means "being
>> more popish than the Pope himself". This is exactly what happened here.
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>>   Jaroslaw Rafa
>>   r...@rafa.eu.org
>> --
>> "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there
>> was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub."
>>

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