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[Erno Kuusela]

In article <mailman.1030456801.18090.python-list at python.org>, "Mark
McEahern" <marklists at mceahern.com> writes:

| [Anthony Baxter]
|| This [whitelist] technique is evil, and fails to scale in any useful way.

| Evil?  Would you like cream with your hyperbole or do you just prefer it
| black?

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/evil.html

evil (adj.) As used by hackers, implies that some system, program,
person, or institution is sufficiently maldesigned as to be not worth
the bother of dealing with. Unlike the adjectives in the
cretinous/losing/brain-damaged series, `evil' does not imply
incompetence or bad design, but rather a set of goals or design
criteria fatally incompatible with the speaker's.  [...]

  -- erno