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 I think it would be much easier to the public if relays were renamed to "channels" or "waterways" or "hoses", or "powerlines" or anything that automatically remembers people that are they work in parallel and this blocking one has no effect on you 
 Or even "wire" or "cable" 
 If you find a good word starting with R I'm onboard. 
 https://relatedwords.io/transports?starting_with=r

Railway, road, rail, river,.radiostation

I like river because if you think of water flow (water is your message), if one river is full or blocked the water will pass thru other river.

Notes and other stuff transmitted thru rivers.

Notes and other stuff transmitted thru Radiostations (or radio channels)

In this radio analogy,. someone chooses to voice his thighs over many radio channels (like 90Mhz,.102 MHz) and people can listen to all those stations.

If one station fails, the other still works  
 I like river, but in the other side, Relay makes more sense because you send your notes to relays so they can relay your note to the Nostr network 
 I think relay makes sense
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/relay

I'm a non native speaker and I know the word "relay" in just a technical context and that's maybe my message.

Now that I see the non technical definition of relay it's actually pretty good