Re: [apps-discuss] I-D Action: draft-ietf-appsawg-greylisting-05.txt

Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> Wed, 14 March 2012 20:18 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] I-D Action: draft-ietf-appsawg-greylisting-05.txt
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On 3/14/2012 1:13 PM, Barry Leiba wrote:
>> The "alternately" is confusing to me.
>
> Maybe because it should be "alternatively"; they're not the same thing.
>
> I have this image of applying greylisting to odd-numbered submissions,
> but not to even-numbered ones.


doesn't help.  I don't really understand what is being alternated or sequenced 
or whatever.  That is, I'm not clear what the overriding scope/principal of the 
rule is.  There seem to be multiple possibilities, as I indicated.

d/

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