acka-research Digest Tuesday, December 08 1998 Volume 03 : Issue 291 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: John Frederic Mc Coy Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3882 Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 00:19:35 -0500 (EST) On Mon, 7 Dec 1998 devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu wrote: > Proposal 3882 > let's help the map-harfer > Trent > Due: Mon Dec 14 21:43:39 1998 > > > this is a modest proposal > > {{All players go home if possible}} > > Replace the final sentence of the first paragraph of Rule 847 with "All > players > shall scream in terror, run around like chickens with their heads cut off, > and go home." > > Well this doesn't seem quite fair. What about whoever it is that is on the moon. Why should he be forced to go home? And the second change is even worse. It'll send players in Gaol and moons and whatnot home for no reason. All in all, I would say this is serious overkill. Vynd jmccoy@umich.edu ------------------------------ From: K 2 Subject: Re: Acka: Puzzle Piece Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 03:28:53 -0500 (EST) Actually I just re-read the rule, I was referring to the following section of 750: When a Player (B) leaves the game, any Player whose Thrall Attribute is the name of Player (B) has their Thrall Attribute set to "". which of course causes an icy player to cease being an overlord.. just a misunderstanding on my part :) K 2 red faced Aaron V. Humphrey wrote: > > When breadbox went on ice eir thrall atribute was set to "" since onice is > > equivelent to left the game so Alfvaen was not overlord to breadbox at the > > time of this message. > > According to what Rule? A quick check through the Rules that were in > force when I commanded the creation of the Puzzle Piece Finds: > > Rule 1270 says that the Thrall Attribute of a Player is set to "" when > e creates a puzzle piece for eir Overlord. > > Rule 615 says that if anyone wins a Cycle by that Rule then Thrall > Attributes are set to "" at the end of the Cycle. > > Rule 750 says that when a new player joins the game, eir Thrall Attribute > is set to "". > > Rule 765 says that when a Thrall Cycle is abolished, then all people in > the Thrall Cycle have their Thrall Attributes set to "". > > There does not seem to be any place in that Ruleset which considers the > Thrall Attributes of players to change when they go On Ice. Perhaps > this has changed since, but as of November 20th, there was no such Rule. > I checked it very thoroughly. You gonna make me CFJ it? > > -- > --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.connect.ab.ca/~alfvaen/ ) > Song In My Head--Soul Coughing:Unmarked Helicopters > Current Book--Guy Gavriel Kay:Sailing To Sarantium > Pardon my circumlocutions, I seem to be soliloquizing. ------------------------------ From: Tom Walmsley Subject: Re: Acka: Mailing lists. Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 17:28:42 -0500 (EST) JT wrote: > Well, I know for a fact that Listar does not do this, and if it did, it > would immediately get fixed. If that is your only reason to object, > would you reconsider? If the algorithm to perorm this task was intelligently written and only added the "Acka:" text if it was not anywhere else in the subject then I would not mind the change too much. One problem I would still have though is that people would almost certainly start forgetting to put "Acka:" in private Acka mailings which would totally mess up my (and many other people's) mail filtering. I thinks the current system works well and would be very wary about changing it. I don't think that remembering the "Acka:" is too difficult. If everyone else does then maybe the change is in order. Jenny. -- Tom Walmsley t.walmsley@lineone.net http://website.lineone.net/~t.walmsley/index.html AIM: TGW666 ICQ 2925739 Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston, lausajne estas rano en mia bideo. ------------------------------ From: Tom Walmsley Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3871 Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 17:29:20 -0500 (EST) devjoe@wilma.che.utexas.edu wrote: > Proposal 3871 > The Next Big Thing > else...if > Due: Sun Dec 13 17:55:49 1998 Now do forgive me if I'm being denser than the offsring of the village idiot and the TV weather girl, but what does this proposal actually do? I'm afraid I just can't follow it. Jenny. -- Tom Walmsley t.walmsley@lineone.net http://website.lineone.net/~t.walmsley/index.html AIM: TGW666 ICQ 2925739 Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston, lausajne estas rano en mia bideo. ------------------------------ From: Towsner Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3871 Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 17:33:26 -0500 (EST) >Now do forgive me if I'm being denser than the offsring of the village idiot >and the TV weather girl, but what does this proposal actually do? I'm afraid I >just can't follow it. It replaces the current, largely linear ruleset, with a heirarchical ruleset. Sort of like nested rule sutes. -- -Henry Towsner Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it. -Logan Pearsall Smith ------------------------------ From: "Gavin M. Doig" Subject: Re: Acka: A Founding Foundling Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 20:18:58 -0500 (EST) >I Pseudo-found the corporation named OPM. > For no particular reason, I psuedo-found a corporation named "We're all about to be much much richer". smallpox bandwagon. ------------------------------ From: Jonathan David Amery Subject: Re: Acka: A Founding Foundling Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 20:25:30 -0500 (EST) On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Gavin M. Doig wrote: > >I Pseudo-found the corporation named OPM. > > > For no particular reason, I psuedo-found a corporation named "We're all about > to be much much richer". I join this corporation. Wild Card. -- Jonathan David Amery, Trinity Hall, CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1TJ. ##### http://www.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/~jda23/home.html o__####### Wild Card of Acka, member of SPAM, wearing Silly Agenda Hats. \'####### Follower of Banna, the EBS and Odo. Holding the Silver Key to the Vault. Memo to myself: Do the dumb things I gotta do. Touch the puppethead. ------------------------------ End of acka-research Digest V3 #291 ***********************************