Simple question on List Type
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I know what Whitelist is, what Blacklist is, but could I please have a detailed explanation of what a Greylist is? I've never seen it used before.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting
In context, though, I'd think that greylist would most likely be "light grey" versus "dark grey", in that you join the server but are not given any permissions until they add you to their list of people allowed to have permissions.
But yes, I agree that it would be useful to have in the guidelines (http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/server-thread-guidelines-must-read.295/) thread. I'm going to email captainnana to ask about that right now.
That's actually the first thread I read to potentially found out what each of the list types were, but it wasn't there : (
Indeed, which is actually what I did when I noticed they had greylists and I wondered how they were using the term. It may very well just be a catchall for light-grey and dark-grey listing situations, which is bothersome but understandable.
Could you possibly explain what the light-grey and dark-grey listing is? As much detail as you can please, if it's not too much trouble.
Sure...
A "light grey" list would be a server that is closer to a whitelist than a blacklist/open. An example would be that you can join the server, but you cannot build anything at all until you are added to a membership database which then gives you permissions to build stuff. You might even also be locked away in a starting area, so you cannot even get out of a dimension/island.
A "dark grey" list would be a server that is closer to a blacklist/open than a whitelist. An example would be that you can join the server, build stuff, place blocks, and whatnot, but you can only use certain items (no buckets, no tnt, etc) until you have been around for a certain amount of time, or you are added to the membership list to get permissions to do that. Normally they don't lock you into an island, but they may have a "newbie dimension" where they keep new members before they have been around long enough to gain full membership.
And, often, servers are a mix between these, which is why "greylists" are so diverse, as opposed to the extremely binary whitelist/blacklist choice.
Thank you!
No worries. And as a point of clarification, which I should make: A "blacklist" is normally the same thing as a "banlist", which is why I say "/open" so it is understood that it means an open server (anti-whitelist). It likely is not the best term to use for that, but that is what it is.