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diff --git a/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-26-card-avatars-design.md b/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-26-card-avatars-design.md index 14829c0..e396a34 100644 --- a/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-26-card-avatars-design.md +++ b/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-08-26-card-avatars-design.md @@ -217,6 +217,16 @@ of the newly arrived mail and appends CANDIDATES, commented out: # noreply@cofidis.it (47 messages) ``` +**How much mail the scan covers** depends on whether the list has ever been +used. With no file, or a file holding no active entry, it scans the WHOLE +database; afterwards it scans the last week. The first run is exactly when a +full scan earns its cost: a week of mail proposes almost nothing, so a +week-only rule would leave the list taking months to become useful. It is +affordable because it happens once, measured at 76 ms over 5105 messages. + +A file holding only rejected candidates still counts as unused. Rescanning it +re-proposes none of them, since anything already mentioned is skipped. + A candidate is an address whose local part is in a small built-in word list (`noreply`, `no-reply`, `donotreply`, `info`, `support`, `billing`, `newsletter`, `notifications`, `mailer-daemon`), or one that recurs with no |