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diff --git a/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md b/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md
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@@ -1811,7 +1811,12 @@ account, and an unknown, used, expired or cancelled ticket, or a group no longer
 active, is one uniform refusal. Creating a link says nothing about whether the
 address has an account (**M1**). At most twenty outstanding per group, as on the
 node; a lifetime clamped to thirty days; a node token may create one for its own
-operator's group (the CLI) and may not ask for mail. What the binding holds
+operator's group (the CLI) and may not ask for mail. **The list answered to the
+owner holds the links nobody has used yet**, which are the ones there is still
+something to do about: a redeemed one has become the member row it produced, and
+showing both says the same thing twice. The row itself outlives the list by
+thirty days, so the account that used a link is answered on a reload or in a
+second tab rather than refused. What the binding holds
 against, per the convention: **third parties** — a messaging service that
 previews the link, a forwarded mail — and not this hub, which verifies the
 addresses it compares and could already be anybody.