Eike writes:
> instead of "whitelist" and "blacklist" I would like to propose the terms:
> "allowlist" and "rejectlist"

Yes, that improves communications.  The words are no longer and express
their meanings quite directly.

> 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.

Incomprehensible to most people and not technically correct.  A device
with leading phase (by some measure: it may have lagging phase by
another) does not necessarily control one with lagging phase.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhas...@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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