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acka-research-digest     Saturday, August 1 1998     Volume 03 : Number 170

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 01:19:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Chaos Reigns

Shall I add this to the treausure page as a clue ?

K 2

John Frederic Mc Coy wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, K2 wrote:
>
> > Brian Raiter wrote:
> > > Also, I have to question whether Proposal 3331 is in fact Literature.
> >
> > Rule 210:[To be considered a piece of literature]It must contain one of
> > the following:...
> > (iii) a phrase that is not found in any other piece of literature.
> >
> > So is literature:
> > --
> > Some special proposals are literature.
> > ie a proposal with quoted material
> > --
> > or:
> > --
> > [the lit list is...] list of sources that can be quoted as Literature
> > ie Works listed on the lit list.
> > --
> >
> > certainly the phrase "That way, everyone's happy." can't be found in the
> > proposal archive (the closest I could find was in P759 - everyone is
> > happy)....
> >
> >
>
> Typical.  I write a perfectly good rule, and someone goes and mucks it up.
> I do hope that my Geography suffers the same fate, thanks for voting for
> it everyone. :)
>
> When I first saw this proposal, I was sure it wasn't Literature, but after
> reviewing the latest version of the Literature rule it looks like just
> about any quote, large or small, from a piece of Literature, would
> qualify.  Perhaps I will fix this, if I find the time.
>
> By the by, I might note that a certain treasure map, of which parts have
> been revealed, could conceivably have certain hidden sections.  These
> sections might say something to the effect that quotes which are utterly
> mundane and without merit will not aid seekers after that particular
> treasure.  Then again, it might not have any such hidden sections, after
> all.  Who can say?
>
>                                - Vynd
>
> [email-masked]

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 01:30:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: [Fwd: Acka: Jenny]

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 13:44:52 +1000
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I can't find any instance of Jenny moving to the wilds, so e is still on
the moon, thus the following location related actions would not have
occoured:
21 Jul 1998 01:14:15 *that* Roome : Vile prophecies
26 Jul 1998 14:53:56 ASS The Name Game
27 Jul 1998 16:17:01 ASS It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)
27 Jul 1998 16:17:01 Town Hall Steps
29 Jul 1998 03:45:11 JT's Book

The transfer of the SBoC on 12 Jul 1998 20:53:26 and the
Benefyt/Swingpoint transfer on  03 Jul 1998 22:10:46 are covered by the
retro thingy.

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 01:30:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: [Fwd: Acka: The Rise and Fall of Vynd]

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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 22:03:48 +1000
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I can't find an error in my harfing of the GAD game, so it would appear
that Vynd does indeed have one donkey. Below is a transcript detailing
the rise and fall of Vynd. The figures in brackets are the number of
donkeys at the end of the round. If I have time this weekend I'll put up
a web page similar to the ones Slakko has for previous games.

Green: 1: Vynd->/dev/joe (2)
Blue: 2: Vynd->TGW (3)
Yellow: 3: Vynd->Admire (3)
Indigo: 4: Vynd->Cover (3)
Orange: 5: Vynd->IdiotBoy<-JM Bear (3)
Violet: 6: Vynd->Koxvolio (4)
Alabaster: 7: Rex Mundi->Vynd->Admire (2)

One donkey was scared into the wilds and one was grabbed by Fortunato.

Amber: 8: Vynd->Covered (2)
Aquamarine: 9: Vynd->else...if->Cover (2)
Azure: 10: Vynd->JT->Cover (2)
Black: 11: Vynd->Admire (2)
Brown: 12: else...if->Vynd<->Alfvaen (3)
Burgundy: 13: Vynd->Fortunato<-JM (3)
Carnelian: 14: Vynd->Cover (3)
Cerulean: 15: Vynd->else...if<-JT (3)
Chartreuse: 16: Vynd->Fortunato->Cover (3)
Crimson: 17: Vynd->JT (4)
Cyan: 18: else...if->Vynd->Fortunato->Cover (2)

One donkey was scared into the wilds and one was grabbed by else...if.

Emerald: 19: Vynd<->else...if (1)

One donkey was scared into the wilds and one was grabbed by else...if,
but Vynd grabbed one of else...if's donkeys.

Fuchsia: 20: Vynd->Fortunato->Cover (1)
Gold: 21: Vynd->? (?)

Scoring summary:
Successful Grab: +1 Donkey
Receiving End of a Successful Grab: -2 Donkeys (iff >2)

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 20:10:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3349

On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, nomicbot wrote:
>Proposal 3349
>:  Greater Poobah and Lesser Poobah
>Publius (Brandon Ray)

[parts clipped]

>I.  The Lesser Poobah shall have the following duties:
>
>1.  To sign all posts with the phrase, “So spake the Lesser Poobah,
>legend in song and story!”
>
>2.  To proclaim imself to be in Opposition to at least one but not more
>than three proposals written by other players, and for which voting
>expires during the seven days following the moment e was proclaimed to
>be Greater Poobah.

There is a typo here of 'Greater' for 'Lesser'.

>a.  If any proposal to which the Greater Poobah is in Opposition shall
>be rejected, e shall receive two points fewer than the number of points
>the proposer would have received if it had been accepted (but not less
>than zero points).

Same here.

>b.  If any proposal to which the Greater Poobah is in Opposition shall
>be accepted, e shall lose a number of points equal to the number the
>proposer would have lost if it had been rejected.

Same here.

I would recommend for Publius to retract this proposal and resubmit it
with the errors corrected.
Also as someone else pointed out on the Ackanomic IRC channel while I was
typing this, it should probably be a duty of the Tabulator, not the
Promoter to make this determination (for now they are the same player,
but)

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 21:30:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ray <[email-masked]>
Subject: Retract Proposal 349

I hereby retract proposal 349.

I note that newbies are apparently not penalized for this action; I
nevertheless thank the kind players who brought errors to my attention,
and regret having inconvenienced the group through my own failure to
proofread.

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 21:32:55 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3348

> Append the following TIMEOUT delimited text to the end of rule 251 (Player
> Names)
> TIMEOUT
> If a player changes eir Ackanomic and the second change is acked by the
> registrar while the first one has not been, then the first change will
> not occur.
> TIMEOUT

Eir Ackanomic...what?  I think it should say "eir Ackanomic name twice",
myself, since I think "twice" should be in there somewhere.

> BETTER
> A player may change eir Ackanomic name, so long as the new name
> complies with all applicable rules. If a player attempts to change eir
> name to something not in compliance with the Rules, that attempt fails. In
> addition, if the name change has not yet been accepted as described
> in the following paragraph, the Registrar may object to the name change if
> e feels that the new name is not within the spirit of the game.  When the
> player changing eir name is the Registrar, the President or any Senator
> can object to or ack the name change as if e were the Registrar.  The
> Registar may not ack eir own name change.
> BETTER
> {{[
>    This change gives the registrar slightly broader authority to object to
>    the name change.  It also gives someone to check the registrars ability
>    to change eir own name.
> ]}}

This is good, though.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Prince:Sign 'O' The Times
Current Book--Jo Clayton:Shadow of The Warmaster
I have an inferiority complex, but it's not very good.

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 21:36:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3350

> Proposal 3350
> Slay that weasel!
> Publius (Brandon Ray)

> In Rule 309, strike the phrase “substantially similar” and replace it
> with the phrase “identical”, wherever it occurs.

In this Proposal, as well as 3349, those things up there that look to some
people like quotes look to others of us not like quotes.  Many programs
have some kind of "fancy quotes" option which uses, instead of simple quotes
like the ones on the line above this one which are the same at the beginning
and end of quoted text, different quote characters for the left and right
ends of quoted text, which characters are not standard ASCII and thus won't
show up properly on many terminals.

I think their status as delimiters is not in question, as long as we don't
let them get into any Rules...:-)  But that flag is generally best turned
off in any program that sends text to the Net.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Prince:Sign 'O' The Times
Current Book--Jo Clayton:Shadow of The Warmaster
"Ride the wild smurf, Druid!"

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 21:36:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Towsner <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Retract Proposal 349

>I hereby retract proposal 349.
	You need to post this to [email-masked] to work.
Acka-research is not a required list, so actions don't occur on it.

- --
- -Henry Towsner

	<[email-masked]>

	Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and
enjoy it.
		-Logan Pearsall Smith

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 21:39:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Retract Proposal 349

On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Brandon Ray wrote:
>I hereby retract proposal 349.

Which proposal?  I believe this could be seen as an unambiguous
misspelling of 3349 however.

>I note that newbies are apparently not penalized for this action; I
>nevertheless thank the kind players who brought errors to my attention,
>and regret having inconvenienced the group through my own failure to
>proofread.

That is correct, you don't lose any points for it.

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 23:18:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3349

On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, nomicbot wrote:

> Proposal 3349
> :  Greater Poobah and Lesser Poobah
> Publius (Brandon Ray)
>=20

Interesting proposal.  I see a few problems however.

> I.  The Lesser Poobah shall have the following duties:
>=20
> 1.  To sign all posts with the phrase, =93So spake the Lesser Poobah,
> legend in song and story!=94
>=20
> 2.  To proclaim imself to be in Opposition to at least one but not more
> than three proposals written by other players, and for which voting
> expires during the seven days following the moment e was proclaimed to
> be Greater Poobah.
>=20
> a.  If any proposal to which the Greater Poobah is in Opposition shall
> be rejected, e shall receive two points fewer than the number of points
> the proposer would have received if it had been accepted (but not less
> than zero points).
>=20
> b.  If any proposal to which the Greater Poobah is in Opposition shall
> be accepted, e shall lose a number of points equal to the number the
> proposer would have lost if it had been rejected.

I think you mean Lesser Poobah, not Greater Poobah, in the above.

>=20
> J.  Neither the Greater Poobah nor the Lesser Poobah shall receive any
> salary.
>=20
> H.  Where conflicts occur, this rule takes precedence over all other
> rules pertaining to Offices.
>=20

This would actually prevent the Poobahs from collecting any salary, for
anything.

                                     - Vynd

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Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1998 23:51:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 3330

As has lately been my custom, I didn't bother reading this proposal until
I actually went to vote on it.  Now that I have, it begs the question: Why
give me 6 points?

                                 Vynd

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