Re: community social media

On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 9:25 PM Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com> wrote:

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> > On Sep 26, 2020, at 12:17, Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>
> wrote:
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> > On 9/26/20 11:05 AM, ourdiaspora wrote:
> >> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> >> On Saturday, September 26, 2020 5:04 PM, David G. Johnston <
> david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 3:11 AM ourdiaspora <
> ourdiaspora(at)protonmail(dot)com> wrote:
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> >>>> 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:
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> https://lists.postgresql.org/manage/
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> In the section "Manage email addresses", the text reads in part:
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> You can also blacklist your own email address from the lists.
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> "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.
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>
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.

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