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[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

Hi David,

On Tue, 06 Apr 2021 16:00:54 +0100
David Carter <address@concealed> wrote:

> Good afternoon,
> 
> I'm currently testing Sympa 6.2.61b.2. The most significant change for 
> us is:
> 
>    https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/1111
> 
> Which renames "blacklist" to "blocklist". We use Steve Shipway's 
> whitelist plugin:
> 
>    
> https://sympa-community.github.io/manual/customize/template-plugins-modwhitelist.html
>    
> https://github.com/sshipway/sympa-6.2-plugins/tree/master/whitelist-1.2
>    https://github.com/sympa-community/sympa/issues/992
> 
> which adds whitelist and modlist pages. Steve's code still works, 
> although "blacklist" and "blocklist" then appear on different wwsympa 
> pages.
> 
> It was only 10 minutes work to clean up the templates to use 
> "blocklist", "modlist" and "allowlist". This does require an additional 
> upgrade step so that I end up with:
> 
>   $ ls -l list_data/test-dpc22/search_filters/
>   total 12
>   -rw-r----- 1 sympa sympa 19 Apr  6 14:43 allowlist.txt
>   -rw-r----- 1 sympa sympa 20 Apr  6 14:13 blocklist.txt
>   -rw-r----- 1 sympa sympa 37 Apr  6 14:54 modlist.txt
> 
> My question (probably for Soji): does "allowlist" seem like a sensible 
> long term name? I would rather not have to change it a second time in 
> the future.
> 
> "Allowed Senders" and "Blocked Senders" would be slightly more 
> descriptive to end users, so I might use those terms in the Web 
> templates.

I have no idea on any particular wording.  I think it's Steve's
decision in the end.


Regards,
-- Soji


> Thanks,
> 
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