On 19.06.20 21:14, Eike Lantzsch wrote:
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).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? All the best Eike -- Eike Lantzsch ZP6CGE Paradox: Getting live-updates about fatalities
Thanks al lot for the proposal! Marco.