On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Rene Barbier wrote:
Now can people please comment on actual email and spf related terms, which
include SPF, RMX, DMP, LMAP, SID, CID, PRA, SRS, SES, MARID, Bounce
Address and others (there are total over 250 terms in the glossary).
First of all, thanks for assembling this glossary.
I tried to locate Sender-ID and Caller-Id as such and couldn't find them
at first. It would be nice to have them linked to the SID and CID entries.
I commented on this before when Hector asked me to remove those all together.
Basicly there is a controversy over MS trying to steal those terms from either
their legitimate owners or how they are used right now. I'm not a proponent
of such actions and chose not to include terms but did include acronyms.
Some minor problems (sorry for bringing these up, but as I'm not a
native English speaker, they make it more difficult to grasp the
meaning, and I might be totally wrong here)
You're not, especially as I'm not native English speaker myself and make
many errors and unfortunetly have problem double-checking my own writing.
- C/R, last line, s/ them / their /
- DER, 2nd line, s/reference to/a reference to the/ (if I understand
correctly)
- DNS HOSTNAME, 2nd line s/then one hostnames/than one hostname/
- DOMAIN 2nd line s/ separate / separated /
- DRONE, 3rd line, s/ then / than /
- ESMTP, 3rd line, s/ it / its /
- F/OSS, the definition of "free" given by
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html is not the same as yours (but
I don't want to start a flame war here)
- GREYLISTING, I think your last sentence is misleading as it seems to
imply that if the server is retrying, then the mail is
considered to
be SPAM (I would remove the part in parentheses and possibly add a link
to http://greylisting.org/ )
- HIJACKING, 1st line, s/ then / than /
- HOST, 2nd line, s/ then / than /
- IIM, 1st line, s/ Identfied / Identified /
2nd line, s/ and they /. That /
- INTERNET, 1st line, s/refers network/refers to a network/
- LMAP, 4th lines, s/iwas/was/
- MOSS, s/obsolute/obsolete/
- Confirmed OPT-IN, it's difficult to understand, I would suggest:
A term indicating that opt-in subscription was confirmed by the user.
Typically it involves sending a verification email to the user
requesting some action (such as replying to the verification email or
visiting some website). Positive action from the user is interpreted as
a decision to subscribe.
- OSS, 3rd line, s/ then / than /
- PATH, 2nd line, s/involved/involve/
- Path Authentication, 4th line, s/ then / than /
- PGP, 3rd line, s/uses/used/
- PKI, the sentence is not complete
- ZOMBIE, 2nd line, s/ then / than /
All changed, pretty much as you suggested. Thank you for noticing all that.
There are also several places where I would add "the" or "a".
You're welcome to send them to me (possibly in private), in my native
language there is no concept of articles at all and I could never learn
to put all that are necessary when writing english.
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net