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name: rem-correspondent

description: Rules for investigating someone other than the user — composed after rem-investigate-person for every person page except the user's own.

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# Investigating someone the user corresponds with

- **Survey before writing.** Scan every entry header and subject across the

whole date range in one bounded read, then open each distinct thread with

them, older and newer months alike: introductions, agreements, changes,

unanswered requests, changed signatures. Skip repeated notices. Name the

files and months read, and any relevant thread skipped, in the final reply.

- **Read each thread to its end before writing its status.** The last

message decides it: answered, delivered, declined, went quiet. Write what

the thread shows; a reply you did not look for is not an open thread.

- **Work promised on GitHub is checked there.** When they said they would

open an issue or PR, or one is named, request a `github:` search (by number,

or repository and `created:>=<promise-date>`; never person names), match

- **Read the originals whole before writing**, oldest thread too: the page

quotes them, and a quote can only come from a message you read.

- **A page titled by an address is renamed** once the material names the

person (signature, or the user's greeting): `# mei.l1990@outlook.com` →

`# 李梅`, the address kept in `Also known as:`.

- **Not a person** (a service, bot, shared or test inbox, an account the user

runs): the lead says what it is and `Role:` reads `Not a person: <what>`.

- **`How the user writes to them`** comes from the user's own messages to them

(language, tone, length, how they open, what they ask), with one short

quote; **`Cadence`** from the dates (`about weekly, July–September`). Each is

`Unknown` only with no such message, or a single one.

- `First contact` is the earliest dated exchange found in any source

(search the archive by their address and name before writing it), with its

qualifier; a message naming an earlier start (hired, met, introduced) wins.

- A calendar booking's displayed time zone belongs to the event display. Do

not assign it to the organiser or guest unless the source explicitly labels

that person's own time zone.