[Exim] Everybody doesn't like something ...

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Author: Jeffrey Goldberg
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To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] Everybody doesn't like something ...
I find the standard NDR

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dangerously ambiguous. That is, there is a natural (though dispreferred)
reading of that in which "all" takes wide scope over the "not" That is
instead of the intended reading

      Not ( Ax (delivered(x))


some could read that text as

     Ax (Not (delivered(x))


The second sentence ("The following addresses ...") does help sort it
out quite a bit, but requires backtracking on the readers part.

I know that the text is fully configurable.

-j

PS:  About the subject line: An advertising jingle when I was growing up
   was 
    "Everbody doesn't like something, but nobody doesn't like Sara Lee."


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