On 1/11/25 12:42, Katherina Walshe-Grey via agora-discussion wrote: > On Fri, 2025-01-10 at 00:47 +0000, ais523 via agora-business wrote: >> Gratuitous: I received a copy of this message with only four ">" >> characters (the relevant portion is quoted above), so it is at least >> possible for me to tell that the original had a line starting with >> "From ". There are indeed five in the mail-archive.com copy of the >> message, though. >> >> I am now wondering whether intentionally crafting a message to look >> different to different recipients means that you have not successfully >> sent it via the fora. That opens up the possibility that maybe zero >> spendies were transferred. > Further considerations: Could someone be considered to have "ensure[d] e > can receive messages" by resolving to check some set of archives (e.g. > the private mailman archives; mail-archive.com)? > > If so, does any inaccuracy in those archives (e.g. mail-archive.com > omitting some monthly reports, like the FLR, for reasons of filesize) > render those messages non-public?
I believe we've held that a message does not have to be received by every single person subscribed to the forum to have been sent "via" a forum. -- Janet Cobb Assessor, Rulekeepor
