Subject: acka-research Digest V4 #115
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acka-research Digest	Tuesday, July 06 1999	Volume: 04  Issue: 115

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From: Eric Wald <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: RFC: News
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 14:05:17 -0400 (EDT)

Request For Comment, assuming such still exists.
Just in case this passes, I recommend that 
nobody start a newspaper until this runs its course.

{{[ Given that newspapers, as currently defined,
    tend to go belly-up on a frequent basis,
    and that we now have only one type of Institutional Power,
    I decided to combine the ideas with a new incentive.

    The Printing Press may be more expensive, 
    but it is permanent and may be paid off in time.
    We may now also have multiple people writing for the same paper
    provided they are members of a single Institution,
    which makes more intuitive sense to me.

    Please note that a Spherical Rator would be destroyed
    when a Sphere of Influence buys a Printing Press.
    This lessens the likelihood of propaganda;
    Newspapers must be politically independent,
    though they may have the same membership as a Sphere.
]}}

Renumber Rule 16-2, "Backers", to 16-3.
Renumber Rule 7-7, "The Press", to 16-2, 
and amend it to read as delimited by NEW_NEWS

NEW_NEWS
A Printing Press is an Institutional Power.
Any Institution may at any time buy a Printing Press 
for four times the Standard Harfing Fee.
An Institution which owns a Printing Press 
is known as a Newspaper.
<P>
A member of a Newspaper is allowed to post messages
to an official mailing list with an indication that the message
is an article of that Newspaper. 
Such an article is then said
to have been published by that Newspaper.
<P>
At the end of each month in which a Newspaper 
published at least one article of at least 200 words,
it will receive A$10 for the efforts of its writers.
<P>
When a Newspaper ceases to own a Printing Press,
it is said to have 'gone bust' and ceases to be a Newspaper.
<P>
A posting that is not sent to one of the official mailing lists 
is never considered to be a newspaper publication. 
In addition, no player may publish an article in a Newspaper 
of which e is not a member.
<P>
News articles may be published without reference to a specific Newspaper. 
Such articles are said to be the work of the Underground Press.
<P>
Journalistic pseudonyms are permitted.
<P>
It is the Crime of Lying In Print for a Newspaper 
to refuse to publish a correction of a clearly false statement 
which previously appeared in an article which it published,
after a public request for such a correction has been made. 
Simply neglecting to publish such a correction 
for a period of three days or more after the request 
shall be taken as refusal to do so.
NEW_NEWS

Sir Galahad

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From: K 2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: RFC: News
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 21:36:40 -0400 (EDT)

Eric Wald wrote:

>     Please note that a Spherical Rator would be destroyed
>     when a Sphere of Influence buys a Printing Press.
>     This lessens the likelihood of propaganda;

propaganda is a good thing :-)

> At the end of each month in which a Newspaper
> published at least one article of at least 200 words,
> it will receive A$10 for the efforts of its writers.
>

> It is the Crime of Lying In Print for a Newspaper
> to refuse to publish a correction of a clearly false statement
> which previously appeared in an article which it published,
> after a public request for such a correction has been made.
> Simply neglecting to publish such a correction
> for a period of three days or more after the request
> shall be taken as refusal to do so.

for whom will it be a crime - the institutions membership, or the player who
slandered me :-)

K 2

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