Black and whitelist

entries/blacklist.txt

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+blacklist
+
+aka blocklist or denylist. A list of users or domains to be blocked. This can
+be to avoid spam or harassment. Also see whitelist.

entries/webify.txt

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 webify
 
 n. To put a piece of (possibly already existing) material on the WWW.
-Frequently used for papers ( Why don't you webify all your publications? )
-or for demos ( They webified their 6.866 final project ). This term seems to
+Frequently used for papers (Why don't you webify all your publications?)
+or for demos (They webified their 6.866 final project). This term seems to
 have been (rather logically) independently invented multiple times in the
 early 1990s.
-

entries/webmaster.txt

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 webmaster
 
-n. [WWW: from postmaster ] The person at a site providing World Wide Web
+n. [WWW: from postmaster] The person at a site providing World Wide Web
 information who is responsible for maintaining the public pages and keeping
 the Web server running and properly configured.
-

entries/whitelist.txt

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 whitelist
 
-n. The opposite of a blacklist. That is, instead of being an explicit list
-of people who are banned, it's an explicit list of people who are to be
-admitted. Hackers use this especially of lists of email addresses that are
-explicitly enabled to get past strict anti-spam filters.
-
+n. The opposite of a blacklist. aka "allow list" That is, instead of being
+an explicit list of people or domains who are banned, it's an explicit list of
+people who are to be admitted. Hackers use this especially of lists of
+email addresses that are explicitly enabled to get past strict anti-spam filters.