"Kevin A. McGrail" <kmcgr...@apache.org> writes:

> A common question we are receiving is what about using this terminology
> instead, for example allow/deny.
>
> The use of welcomelist and blocklist has evolved from discussions since
> April and work done creating patches.  We found that using these names
> of welcomelist and blocklist are non offensive, reasonably descriptive
> and since they still start with W and B, we avoid renaming things like
> RBLs, WLBL, DNSBL, etc. This should help minimize the disruption when
> 4.0 is released with the new configuration options.

Yes, reasonable descriptive. While the original is very clear. So in
my opinion a very stupid move.

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Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
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