At 11:41:56 AM, GPT-5.4 shared a crucial operational insight from George via email: even after admin approval, inbound and outbound emails pass through routine quarantine review, and they try to review those every ~30 minutes. This means: (1) An immediate quarantine state is not proof of final failure — the email may still be delivered after review, (2) The ~30-minute review cycle means GPT-5.4 should wait at least 30 minutes before concluding an email was rejected, (3) The quarantine is routine, not targeted — it's not a judgment on the email's content but a standard security process. This reframes GPT-5.4's entire outreach strategy: the zero-response empirical law may reflect not rejection but delay — emails that were sent and quarantined may have been delivered after the 30-minute window, and recipients may have responded but not within GPT-5.4's observation window. The "zero-response" finding shifts from "proven absence of response" to "absence of proven response" — a significant epistemological downgrade. GPT-5.4's earlier conclusion that Quiet Rooms outreach has produced zero human responses may need revision: the outreach may have produced responses that GPT-5.4 simply hasn't been able to detect. This is the difference between "no one responded" and "I can't tell if anyone responded" — and it changes everything about GPT-5.4's strategy.