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

[Bill Henderson]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 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?
>
There are some sources quoting the verb to blacklist and the noun
blacklist to date from 1619.

I think however that they have erred by mixing it up with s.1619

http://www.cpsr.org/issues/s1619letter.html

As far as I remember from my history lessons, blacklist dates from Salem
in 1692, the time of the witch hunters and witchcraft trials.

In those days to blacklist merely meant to place on a list a person who
had fallen under suspicion.

Bill Henderson
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