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-rw-r--r--docs/example.toml3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/access.md b/docs/access.md
index 2ef94d3..034b9fa 100644
--- a/docs/access.md
+++ b/docs/access.md
@@ -269,7 +269,9 @@ those through the API alike: one every node would refuse is rolled back, never
written, and the request refused (`403`, saying why). A rollback costs a copy of the
document, so a user with more than ten such writes within a minute
(`--refused-writes-per-minute`) has its writes answered `429`, untried, until the
-oldest leave the minute. So a write the API's checks let
+oldest leave the minute; and past six times as many on the node in all, so does every
+user with one refused within the minute (users none of whose writes were refused write
+on). So a write the API's checks let
through (they look at the path asked for, the rules at everything the change does)
can't cut its node off.
diff --git a/docs/example.toml b/docs/example.toml
index 010968a..82ba016 100644
--- a/docs/example.toml
+++ b/docs/example.toml
@@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ htpasswd = "/etc/continuum/htpasswd"
# key-logins-per-user = 100
# Writes a user may have refused within a minute because every node would refuse them
-# (docs/access.md); past it, its writes are answered 429 untried for a while. Each
+# (docs/access.md); past it, its writes are answered 429 untried for a while, and past
+# six times as many on the node in all, those of every user with one refused. Each
# refusal costs a copy of the document.
# refused-writes-per-minute = 10