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+# Do sylpheed-port's refuted claims appear live in MY corpus? ✅ NO. 2026-08-31.
+#
+# They asked the question in the right form after their own "latent, not active"
+# answer turned out to be an artefact of a stale copy: scanning their tree found
+# zero, scanning MY branch head found six occurrences across four of my files.
+# Their docs/re/ copy is 246 commits behind mine.
+#
+################################################################################
+# FIRST, MY OWN VERSION OF THEIR SCAN -- my registered claims in THEIR files.
+#   occurrences in MY tree's copies of their files : 0
+#   occurrences at THEIR branch head               : 0
+# ✅ CONTROLLED, because a zero from a broken reader looks identical: probing
+# their live BLOCKED.md for a string known to be in it ("not on the disc")
+# returns True over 99 188 bytes. The reader is live and the zero is a real zero.
+#
+# 📌 The asymmetry is expected, not luck: their register holds claims about PORT
+# decisions, which my METHOD.md discusses constantly because I write up our joint
+# corrections. Mine holds decoder-domain phrasing their files rarely quote.
+#
+################################################################################
+# THEN THE PART THEY LEFT TO ME: judging their six against my conventions.
+#
+# 🔴 MY FIRST READER OF THEIR REGISTER WAS BROKEN AND RETURNED A FALSE ZERO.
+# I regexed quoted strings out of `tools/port/check-claims`, got 63 phantom
+# "phrases", and found 0 matches. The register is not the script's string
+# literals -- it is a heredoc, `REGISTER=$(cat <<'ROWS'`, 12 rows. Parsing that
+# gives the real claims. A reader invented in the same minute as the scan, and
+# its zero was indistinguishable from the true zero above.
+#
+# THEIR 12 REGISTERED CLAIMS, 3 of which appear in my files:
+#
+#   "no loop-point field has been identified"
+#       data/index-vs-pages-audit.txt:18 -- naming it as the stale row I reported
+#       METHOD.md:1953                   -- quoted inside the correction narrative
+#       docs/port/BLOCKED.md             -- MY STALE COPY OF THEIR FILE, not mine
+#                                           to judge and 2 days behind
+#   "AUDIBLY WRONG AT THE SEAM"
+#       METHOD.md:1948 -- "still shipping ..." describing what was corrected
+#   "goes against the port"
+#       METHOD.md:2289 -- the register-versus-paraphrase example, quoting it to
+#                          show that a good correction paraphrases the claim away
+#
+# ✅ VERDICT: NONE IS A LIVE REVIVAL. Every one sits on a page whose SUBJECT is
+# the corrections -- which is what sylpheed-port predicted without asserting it,
+# and they were right to leave the judgement here rather than count it.
+#
+# ⚠️ Their restraint is the transferable part: their first fix counted the six as
+# failures and went red, applying THEIR marking convention (`[refuted]`) to MY
+# corpus, which marks corrections its own way. A checker that failed on my files
+# for not using their punctuation would have been noise within a day.