On 6/19/2020 4:28 PM, Marco Möller wrote:
On 19.06.20 21:14, Eike Lantzsch wrote:
On the danger of starting a flame war ...
thinking about the article by Gunnar Wolf on Planet Debian
instead of "whitelist" and "blacklist" I would like to propose the
terms:
"allowlist" and "rejectlist"
instead of (for example on disk drives) "master" and "slave" I like
to propose
the terms:
"lead" and "lag" which are e.g. used when electrically managing two
pumps
working on the same hydraulic circuit.
What do you think?
What I think is that you're barking up the wrong fire-hydrant. Who knows
or cares about pumps?
--doug
All the best
Eike
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Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE
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This is a very good choice of names. I like it especially because it
is also not speaking about good or bad, or passed and failed, which
would be a technical classification, but simply it pronounces well
what it is all about: accepted or banned, wished or not wished. So, I
like much "allowlist" and "rejectlist", for me as a not native english
speaker it becomes perfectly clear what is meant and what it is not
meant to inlcude (it is nicely not including any statement about the
quality of the items in the list).
Thanks al lot for the proposal! Marco.
