Manager/subscriber seems most accurate

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> On Mar 12, 2021, at 20:13, Douglas Parsons <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> In place of secondary how about subscriber? It would be accurate to the role.
> 
>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 8:25 PM Dan Langille via Nut-upsuser 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, at 8:15 PM, Rusty Bower wrote:
>>> I’m not a fan of secondary when there can be multiple secondaries 
>> 
>> A secondary is a secondary. There can be multiple secondaries.
>> 
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>>>> On Mar 12, 2021, at 18:46, Dan Langille via Nut-upsuser 
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021, at 6:52 PM, Jim Klimov via Nut-upsuser wrote:
>>>>> Hello fellow NUTs :)
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Some time ago an issue 
>>>>> https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/840 was raised, and with 
>>>>> current work underway to publish a standard on NUT protocol it became 
>>>>> more urgent - to retire the master/slave terminology from NUT 
>>>>> configuration and documentation.
>>>>> 
>>>>>   I looked around for suitable synonyms, and for our primary use-case 
>>>>> with upsmon roles - where it either manages an UPS by direct link and 
>>>>> tells others to shut down ASAP, or is one of such shutdown agents being 
>>>>> told what to do, words "manager" and "subordinate" seem neutral enough 
>>>>> and reflective of the activities and relationship of these actors.
>>>>> 
>>>>>   Would native speakers or others better versed in the current dictionary 
>>>>> of acceptable words please confirm if this choice is okay, or suggest 
>>>>> better alternatives?
>>>> 
>>>> What about primary and secondary?
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>>>>   Dan Langille
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