On Sat, 2025-01-11 at 12:44 -0500, Janet Cobb via agora-discussion wrote: > 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. >
Does that mean the answer would change if there were some number of people who regularly check public archives, who greatly outnumber the people subscribed to receive email from the mailing list in the normal way? I don't think that is likely, but I also don't think we can ever conclusively disprove it. ~qenya
