On 24 Feb 2021, at 12:51, John Dale wrote:
What are we going to do about actual light and actual dark?
There's no reason to stop using "black" and "white" when referring to
things that are in an actual optical brightness sense black (or very
dark) or white (or very light.)
As Wietse said:
Postfix version 3.6 deprecates terminology that implies white is
better than black.
That's a very clear and objective criterion.
As Kevin noted, we are making the same improvement in terminology in
SpamAssassin, where it is much more technically complex because SA is
intrinsically much more judgmental than most software. Also because,
unlike Postfix, we detect and pass moral judgment on optical brightness,
e.g. detecting black-on-black or white-on-white text as indicators of
which we consider a sign of "spam," which is evil (even though some of
us are fans of Spam(tm), a product of the Hormel Co. which is both tasty
and arguably a moral good, upcycling scrap meat which might otherwise be
wasted...)
Note the lack of (metaphorically) gray areas.
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