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ignacionelson b128b114b5 Make an announcement say who it is for
The first version refused clients outright. That was right for the only
message that existed — a hosted instance telling its administrator about
their plan — and it stopped being right the moment a message needed to
reach the *clients* of a shared instance, where the administrator is the
operator and the customers are client accounts.

The unsafe fix would have been to drop the guard and let each listener
check `isStaff`. The safe one is to make every caller say who it is
talking to and have core enforce it: `show()` now takes a required
`audience` with no default, and a message aimed elsewhere is dropped
before it reaches the props. A listener that forgets therefore reaches
nobody rather than everybody, which is the direction a mistake should
fall.

An unrecognised audience reaches nobody either, and is ignored rather
than thrown — a listener aimed at the wrong people should show nothing,
not break the page it was decorating.

The old "a client is never shown one" test became "a message for staff
reaches no client, even from a listener that never checks", which is the
property that actually matters and the one the enforcement provides. Two
more pin the other directions: a client message reaches clients and no
staff, and an unknown audience reaches neither.

cloud-modules declares `staff` for the free-plan band, and its test fake
enforces the same rule, so a listener aimed at the wrong audience fails
in the package's own suite rather than passing there and misbehaving in
the host.
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