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diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md index 0dd5819..d7c3430 100644 --- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md +++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md @@ -220,9 +220,10 @@ Someone who runs a node invites you. You need an account on the same hub first. You will not be asked again on that browser, or on that machine. -**The code never passes through the hub**, and that is the whole reason it -exists: it proves the invitation came from the person running the group, and -not from the service in the middle. +**The code never passes through the hub** — unless whoever invited you asked +the hub to mail it to you — and that is the whole reason it exists: it proves +the invitation came from the person running the group, and not from the +service in the middle. ### Leaving @@ -548,6 +549,13 @@ membership on the hub and produces a code that never goes near it. Send the code out of band; they enter it the first time they open the group. You do not need to be online then. +The Members tab offers **Send the invitation by e-mail**, ticked by default: the +hub mails the code to the address on their account, so nobody has to copy it. +That is a trade: **the hub then holds the code**, and a hub that wanted to could +use it to join in their place. For a group where that matters, untick it and +send the code yourself — the box remembers your choice. The CLI never mails +anything. + ### Seeing who is in ```bash |