Subject: acka-research Digest V4 #116
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acka-research Digest	Wednesday, July 07 1999	Volume: 04  Issue: 116

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From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: RFC: News
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 04:18:44 -0400 (EDT)

I like it.

Niccolo Flychuck
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Eric Wald wrote:

> 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
> 
> from -> [email-masked]
> 
> 
> 
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From: Eric Wald <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: RFC: News
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 12:48:34 -0400 (EDT)

K 2:

> >     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 :-)

I didn't write the Sphere's restriction.
Anyway, nothing keeps a Newspaper from having a strong bias...

> > 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.
> >

Did you intend to comment on this?

> <prop fragment snipped>
> 
> for whom will it be a crime - the institutions membership, or the player 
> who slandered me :-)

Oops.  But isn't this what RFC is for?  How about:
"
It is the Crime of Lying In Print for the author of an article
to refuse to publish a correction of a clearly false statement
which previously appeared in that article,
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.
"
This now applies to Underground Press articles, as well.

Sir Galahad

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