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Re: BIND Masters and slaves

From	Ted Hatfield <ted@io-tx.com>
Newsgroups	comp.protocols.dns.bind
Subject	Re: BIND Masters and slaves
Date	2020-06-15 14:34 -0500
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On Mon, 15 Jun 2020, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:38 AM Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> wrote:
>>
>> Vin?cius Ferr?o via bind-users <bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> But the prevalence of terms are still master and slave. And I really
>>> hope this thing of changing nomenclatures doesn?t go any further due to
>>> political correctness.
>>
>> "Political correctness" just means being considerate for other people,
>> especially people who do not have many of the advantages we might take for
>> granted.
>>
>
> Being considerate to others should not be associated with politics,
> something the term "political correctness" is.
>
> There is a term in Africa for those who use "especially people who do
> not have many of the advantages we might take for granted" in their
> sentences; it is not a particularly positive term.

Regardless of whether you consider this a political issue or not the 
terminology master/slave has a poor connotation for large swathes of the 
general public.

In the time we live in the change from master/slave to primary/secondary 
is both justified and appropriate.

Although nobody likes to change, this is a fairly minor issue and not 
deserving of complaint.

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