On Sun, 2018-11-11 at 19:21 -0800, Aris Merchant wrote: > Strictly speaking, you can CoE any document (R2201). However, the > message I sent wasn't even a document, given that it was sent to a-d.
Rule 1551 defines a public document to be part (possibly all) of a public message. It also strongly implies that a public document is a type of document, although without defining "document". That weakly implies that a document is part, and possibly all, of a message. If so, messages to a-d probably count, otherwise the "public" modifier would be pointless. Other uses of "document" in the rule include "backing documents" (something quite different), and Canti Cygnei (similar to the usage in rule 1551, but which could be submitted via private email to the Registrar, and are thus not necessarily public). There's also the usage in rule 2124, which is just weird. -- ais523
