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

[Ian MacLure]

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>Message: 9
>Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:36:21 -0700
>From: Mike Castle <dalgoda at ix.netcom.com>
>Subject: Re: [svlug] OT:  I live in an email ghetto - Brian Bilbrey,
>	email rejected
>To: svlug at lists.svlug.org
>Message-ID: <20030425033621.GD28036 at thune.mrc-home.com>
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>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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	May have some derivative roots ( usagewise anyways ) with "blackmail"
	which originally meant subscribing to a protection racket in the
English/Scottish
	Border area in the time of the late Henrys(VII/VIII) through James I&VI. 
	E1R made  paying a capital offence.

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