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RE: [Asrg] draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl-02.txt

2005-12-07 14:15:49


On 7 Dec 2005 at 10:30, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote:

Since the ID is clearly an expression of a personal opinion opposed to
blacklists I do not think it is appropriate for the IETF to mandate the
use of a loaded political vocabulary. It is admitted that the term
blacklist is widely used and that this is the 'entrenched' use. So allow
the author to use that term and let that be the end of it.

So widely accepted and used that the 'cutting-edge technologist', William 
Saffire, wrote about it in his Sunday NY Times Magazine column, "On 
Language" this past weekend.

<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/magazine/04wwln_safire.html>

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Cheers
GRB

-- 
Greg R. Broderick

Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a minute, but 
set him on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his 
life.

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