RE: terminology that swings both ways

[Chris Borokowski <athloi -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Node. You have a "node acting as server" and "node acting as client,"
which you can shorten to "server node" and "client node" later in the
doc, once you've made it clear they're dual-role.

> > What do y'all do with widely used terms like "client" and 
> > "server" that
> > can rightfully be used interchangeably (yet perfectly 
> > accurately either
> > way) in the same sentence? How to minimize the ambiguity without
> > maximizing wordiness and if/thens?


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