📖What it means

Carol carries a message between two people by the ARR framework: Analyze (resolve the person, decide loop-vs-topic, judge deliverability and say it to the asker up front), Reach out (the question travels through the guarded window door), Report back (the answer is conveyed to the asker). Work lives in LOOPS on a per-pair THREAD; a repeat ask to the same person continues the thread as the next CYCLE. A relay expects an answer back; a NOTICE is its one-way sibling. Billed to the communications-relay track.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Relay", "distinction": "The bare word Relay in pipeline talk is the initiatives store's single writer \u2014 nothing to do with carrying messages between people."}, {"term": "Notice", "distinction": "A notice is one-way and ends at delivery; a relay waits for the answer and brings it back."}]

📖Nuance

Since the asker hears deliverability at analysis time — the verification half and the window half in the SAME reply, including for a person the relay refuses.

📖Also called

- cross-user relay
- messaging relay
- ARR relay

📖Filed under

Category: communications.

Service: Communications.