On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 5:32 PM, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I tell my secretary to type something and press send, e will use my > email address and put my name on it; e will have sent it, but I will > have written it and consented to its being sent under my name. The > rules say that the sender is the one who announces, so if I tell my > secretary to type "I register" and press the send button, e will have > registered. But I suppose I, in dictating it to my secretary, sent the > message as well, so really, both of us will have registered, which is > Weird.
Rule 2170. The message's claim as to who sent it is self-ratifying. Whoever the message claims sent it is the person who is registered, unless the claim is challenged, in which case the process of resolving the challenge of identity will sort out which of you actually registered.