The redelivery hook keyed on the canonical flood_control:<seconds> result, so
two real refusals slipped past it and armed no timer, leaving the reply for the
next restart. A short wait that outlived the send retries raised instead of
failing closed, and an edit refused again after its inline wait returned the
platform's raw text. Both now fail closed canonically, the second carrying the
new delay rather than the first refusal's.
The ledger also accepts a row still carrying the platform's own wording, so a
row persisted by an unnormalized path is dated from the delay it states instead
of the generic default. Without that a boot sweep claims it at once and spends
its one attempt inside the penalty. Matching requires the flood wording as well
as a delay, so an unrelated retry suggestion is never read as a flood.
Six new assertions fail without this change. 770 passed across the ledger,
Telegram, send-retry and queued suites.
Alexander Russell
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