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-rw-r--r--docs/USERGUIDE.md6
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diff --git a/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md b/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md
index 673ad05..325a3c5 100644
--- a/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md
+++ b/docs/MESHBAY_DESIGN.md
@@ -1811,7 +1811,12 @@ account, and an unknown, used, expired or cancelled ticket, or a group no longer
active, is one uniform refusal.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.
diff --git a/docs/USERGUIDE.md b/docs/USERGUIDE.md
index d3676cf..0589929 100644
--- a/docs/USERGUIDE.md
+++ b/docs/USERGUIDE.md
@@ -579,8 +579,10 @@ their e-mail address and **Create link**. Send them the
link, or leave **Send the invitation by e-mail** ticked and the hub mails it.
They register with that address and land in the group without typing a code.
The link works once and only for an account with that address, so a copy that
-travels further — a forwarded mail, a chat — lets nobody else in. Pending links
-are listed under the box, and **Cancel** takes one back. A hub mails at most ten
+travels further — a forwarded mail, a chat — lets nobody else in. Links nobody
+has used yet are listed under the box, and **Cancel** takes one back; once
+somebody joins through a link it leaves that list, and they are in the member
+list above it. A hub mails at most ten
links a day for one account (an administrator can change that).
The Members tab offers **Send the invitation by e-mail**, ticked by default: the