Re: Contradictiory directions

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> writes:

>> It is impossible to disallow such a thing, so I'm not sure what your
>> point is.
>
> It's bad to distribute a version of Emacs capable of such a thing.

Uhm...  then it's bad, I guess?  Since all versions of Emacs have been,
since the very first one, capable of that.

>>> If so, it is certainly a standard I don't know about.  In nearly three
>>> decades, I've heard many variants of "list", but never "allowlist" or
>>> "blocklist".  Can we agree to use the terminology that everyone knows
>>> about in Emacs, to keep the situation simple?
>
>> Seems simple enough to me.
>
> So we agree to use the existing terms "whitelist" and "blacklist" then?
> LGTM, thanks!

We're using the existing terms allowlist/blocklist.

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