[svlug] OT: I live in an email ghetto - Brian Bilbrey, email rejected

[Mike Castle]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 12:13:13AM -0400, secure at realns.com wrote:
> Just a curious question of thought.... Where did the term 'blacklist' originate
> from? It sounds so racial. Anybody know of its origin?

According to m-w.com, it dates to circa 1619.  Been around quite a while.

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