[polotics]

The meaning of a message is what has been understood.

[dang]

Can you please make your substantive points without being snarky or condescending? Your comment would be fine without that last bit.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[csallen]

The meaning of a message is what is intended + communicated, assuming those intentions were communicated clearly.

Willfully interpreting otherwise (especially uncharitably so) is the very definition of being disingenuous, which is pretending to not know what was really meant.

[polotics]

I disagree: if a message is open to such disingenuous interpretations, then its meaning has not been formulated clearly enough. I use the: (1) say what you will communicate, (2) communicate, (3) say what you have communicated rule, also the six W's...