18 October 2011 UTC I remembered why it checks the top user of Spam instead of Status The bot only checks the Status page every five minutes If a user who s on the access list edits Spam and then Status there s a brief window where a bad user could change the contents of Spam and have the bot deliver it To avoid this possibility the bot ensures that the top user editing Spam is a trusted user any user on the access list Any user can start the bot but the message Spam must have been last edited by someone who s on the access list Generally this isn t a problem as the whole delivery process is generally a one user workflow Using a bot like LivingBot slightly complicates this but only when the bot isn t listed on the access list 15 17