Be clear why breaking the actor model breaks our solution

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@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ so the receiving server can decide whom to send the message to.
Unfortunately this decision breaks the actor model and also our suggested
solution to authorization; see [[https://github.com/WebOfTrustInfo/rwot9-prague/blob/master/topics-and-advance-readings/ap-unwanted-messages.md#org7937fed][MultiBox]] for a suggestion on how we
can solve this.
This is more serious than it seems; we cannot proceed to make the system
much safer to use without throwing out =sharedInbox= since we will
lose our ability to make intentional, directed messages.
# - What to do about the holes in the spec? Many community members have
# asked that we codify current behavior. However, as this document lays