Subject: Ackanomic Voting Digest V2 #13
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Ackanomic Voting Digest    Tuesday, March 18 1997    Volume 02 : Number 013

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 01:03:30 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1803

Proposal 1803
Ad Hoc Committees
Niccolo Flychuck

Create a new rule entitled "ad hoc comittees" which contains the following
text:
"
1. An ad hoc comittee can be called in one of the following ways:
    a. By a proposal which has been accepted according to the rules.
    b. By any Institution which is session provided the President approves
       within three days of the Institution's anouncement that it is
       calling for an ad hoc comittee.
    c. By any player posting a public message to that effect, provided
       at least 5 additional players publically support this call within 
       three days.

2. Regardless of who makes the original call, the call must specify
   the matter on which the comittee is to be called, and the specific
   case this matter pertains to. If a call to an ad hoc calls specifies a
   matter, and there exists no rules that empowers an ad hoc comittee
   for such a matter, then the call is void and is ignored.

3. When an ad hoc comittee has been legally called for it shall be
constructed according to the following criteria:

a. One player shall be randomly selected from among active players who are
or have been Presidents. 
b. One player shall be selected randomly from among the Swingers,
excluding Capital Swingers. 
c. One player shall be selected randomly from among the active players who
are Bronze Torch holders.
d. One player shall be selected randomly from among the players who won
past cycles of Ackanomic.
e. One player shall be selected randomly from among the players who own or
posses unique entities.
f. One player shall be selected randomly from the players who have less
than A$100 or a non-positive number of points.
g. If the specified matter deals with extra nomic relations or entities,
then one player shall be appointed by the Ambassador.
h. One player shall be selected randomly from among the active players, 
who fit none of the above criteria, if such players exist. 
i. Up to two additional players may be selected according to criteria
defined by the rule empowering the specific ad hoc comittee.

Once a player has been selected for a given comitte according to two of
the above criteria e is no longer eligible to be selected to the same
comittee by other criteria. Players may decline to be on an ad hoc
comittee.  If at the end of this process there are fewer than five members
in the comittee, then additional players are appointed to replace the ones
that have declined until the comittee has been filled. If possible, they
should be selected according to criteria that are not filled by the
members of the ad hoc comittee. If the comittee still has fewer than five
members, than Senators and President are added to the comittee by
alphabetical order of their Ackanomic names, until the comittee has five
members.

4. Once a comittee has been appointed it has seven days in which to post
its decision. In its consideration it must follow the rules which empower
that specific comittee. All ad hoc comittee decision are voted on by all
members of the comittee the outcome is determined according to a simple
majority rule. If any members go on Vacation before he comittee posted
its decisions, they are not replaced by other players. If they voted
before they went on Vacation, then their votes are counted, otherwise,
they are considered to have abstained. In case of a tie, the President
breaks the tie.

5. Once a comittee has posted its decision, it dissolves. Each member of
the comittee receives A$25 from the Treasury, as compensation for eir
trouble, unless they indicate a favorite charity, in which case the money
is transferred to that charity instead.

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 11:51:16 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1804

Proposal 1804
Bored
Mohammed

This is a Modest proposal.

[Just keeping the rules in their categories.]

1.  Renumber 1743 (the Sinister Alien Abduction Act) to 1131.

2.  Renumber 723 (Big Tents...) to 725.

3.  Renumber 1764 (Organizational Powers) to 723.

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:32 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1827

Proposal 1827
The Bronze Monkey
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:35 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1835

Proposal 1835
Argh.
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:36 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1836

Proposal 1836
NOOO!
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:37 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1839

Proposal 1839
Just so.
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:35 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1834

Proposal 1834
Too much!
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:22 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1806

Proposal 1806
One of many
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:22 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1806

Proposal 1806
One of many
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:23 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1809

Proposal 1809
Fixing R101
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:36 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1837

Proposal 1837
Far too much.
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:37 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1838

Proposal 1838
Indeed, quite.
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:31 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1824

Proposal 1824
Well, I don't!
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:24 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1810

Proposal 1810
Repairing R1428
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:27 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1819

Proposal 1819
Improving PCPDs
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:25 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1814

Proposal 1814
Indeed muchness
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:22 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1807

Proposal 1807
Another of many
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:31 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1826

Proposal 1826
Untimely Undeath
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:29 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1822

Proposal 1822
What happens now?
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:23 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1808

Proposal 1808
Yet another of many
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:33 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1829

Proposal 1829
Subterranean Towers
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:27 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1817

Proposal 1817
Repairing Big Tents
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:25 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1813

Proposal 1813
Further difficulties
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:32 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1828

Proposal 1828
The Granite Banana Tree
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:31 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1825

Proposal 1825
Fixing the dice (rules)
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:24 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1812

Proposal 1812
Miscellaneous villianry
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:26 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1815

Proposal 1815
A true plethora of props
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:27 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1818

Proposal 1818
Redefining Organizations
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:35 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1833

Proposal 1833
Please, oh please, STOP!
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:26 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1816

Proposal 1816
A truly unforgivable one
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:33 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1830

Proposal 1830
Requiring Barnyard Animals
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:34 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1832

Proposal 1832
It's an evil trap, I tell you!
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:34 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1831

Proposal 1831
These titles are just nonsense!
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:24 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1811

Proposal 1811
Giving PCPDs a thourough touch-up
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:28 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1820

Proposal 1820
Giving a thourough tune-up to many things
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:30 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1823

Proposal 1823
I suppose you all see where I'm going with this?
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:28 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1821

Proposal 1821
Completely repairing all difficulties with far-too-long t
Red Barn

  {{ A$3000 is transferred from the treasury to Red Barn.  [Else null] }}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 12:53:21 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1805

Proposal 1805
The Flat Earth Preservation Society
Red Barn

  The Flat Earth Preservation Society exists. Its goal to prevent the Round
Earth Restoration Society from restoring a round shape to the Earth by
building enormous scissor-like machines to cut the tethers of the Earth's
two dangling fragments. Unfortunately, the cost of such machines is very
high -- 15,000 A$.

  At any time, a player may make a contribution to the Flat Earth
Preservation Society by posting a public message containing a non-negative
amount of A$ less than that player's current balance that they wish to
transfer to the Treasury on behalf of the Flat Earth Preservation Society.
If taxes should ever exist in Acka, such contributions are tax-deductible.

  The first player to make such a contribution becomes Chairman of the Flat
Earth Preservation Society, and it is his duty to keep track of how much
money has been transferred to the Treasury on the Society's behalf.
  Should this player ever go on vacation or leave the game, the next player
to contribute shall take over this title and duty.

  Once the Round Earth Restoration Society has raised 15,000 A$, a large
machine shall be built, and the southern fragment severed from the earth,
and causing the text in R1319 which reads "Once an additional 15,000 A$ has
been raised, the southern fragment will be likewise joined, restoring a
spherical shape to the Earth" to be removed.
  Once an additional 15,000 A$ has been raised, the southern fragment will
be likewise severed, maintaining a flat shape to the Earth.  When that
happens, the text reading "Once the Round Earth Restoration Society has
raised 15,000 A$, a large machine shall be built, and the northern fragment
joined to the earth, giving it a roughly hemispherical shape." shall be
removed from R1319.
  {{[This leaves the Round Earth Restoration Society in existence, since it
may well wish to undertake new, prohibitively expensive, lifting-machines
to recover the fragments (or even to become an organization), but revokes
its power.]}}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:15:28 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  P1786 accepted (Fixing a truly unforgiveable pawn)

Proposal 1786
Fixing a truly unforgiveable pawn
Mohammed

Votes cast by active players:  11 / 17 = 64.705882%
Yes:  7    No:  1     Present:  6   ...Proposal accepted.

YES votes:
	/dev/joe
	Red Barn
	Strider
	ThinMan
	Niccolo Flychuck
	Mohammed
	Vulcan Unity vote

NO votes:
	Malenkai

PRESENT votes:
	mr cwm
	IdiotBoy
	Lestrade
	Robert Sevin
	Narf
	fnord

Active players who did not vote:
	Jammer
	Calvin N Hobbes
	Vynd
	snowgod
	breadbox
	Techno

Text of accepted proposal:

Proposal 1786
Fixing a truly unforgiveable pawn
Mohammed
Mon Mar 10 15:45:40 1997

This is a Modest Proposal.

[This proposal makes the pawn more powerful by shaking loose a few of
the restrictions on its motion.  It also allows the players the option
of swapping away the pawn's promotability for paratroopability.  I
think the two powers are pretty well balanced.  But in any case, the
pawn needs a bit more strength in Niccolo's and my opinions.]

Rule 1230.8 (Creation of a PartyChessPiece Pawn) is amended to read:
- ---
{{ 2 points are transferred from Mohammed to Niccolo Flychuck. }}

1. A pawn is represented by the ASCII character p .

2. Any pawn can move exactly one square horizontally or vertically.  A
pawn that is currently protecting a friendly piece can, alternatively,
move two squares horizontally or vertically.

3. A pawn can capture only by moving diagonally a distance of one
square, into a square occupied by an opponent's piece.

4. A pawn is a promotable piece.  When a pawn reaches one the
following squares: j10,j11,k10,k11, it is immediately promoted.  It
can be promoted to any legal PartyChessPiece the chosen by the
Swinger.

5. A Pawn can only be Placed on one of the columns a,b,s,t, or on
one of the rows 1,2,19,20.

6. A pawn's material value is 1.

7.  The ChessUmpire has the privelege of deleting section 7 of this
rule at any time.  The ChessUmpire has the privelege of calling a
Chess Hearing.  The Chess Hearing shall have valid responses of "Keep
Promotion" and "Dump Promotion".  If the verdict of the Hearing is
"Dump Promotion", sections 4 and 5 of this rule are removed, and
section 6 is renumbered to 4.  After that is resolved, section 7 of
this rule is removed.
- ---

[--current text:

1. A pawn is represented by the ASCII character p .

2. A pawn can move exactly one square either horizontally or
vertically provided that the distance between the square the pawn
occupied and the square j10 does not increase where distance is
defined as the larger of dR, and dC

3. A pawn can capture only by moving diagonally a distance of one
square, into a square occupied by an opponent's piece, provided that
the distance between the square the pawn occupied and the square j10
does not increase, where distance is defined as the larger of dR and
dC

4. A pawn is a promotable piece. When a pawn reaches one the
following squares: j10,j11,k10,k11, it is immediately promoted. It
can be promoted to any legal PartyChessPiece the chosen by the
Swinger.

5. A Pawn can only be Placed on one of the columns a,b,s,t, or on
one of the rows 1,2,19,20.

6. A pawn's material value is 1
]

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 18:56:00 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1840

Proposal 1840
Saving sendmail (or - I always hoped this sort of
Malenkai

legislation would not be needed in Acka)

This is a Modest Proposal.

Amend R 309, "Substantially Similar Proposals" to append the following
text to the end of the rule:

"
It is a Crime to be the author of both Proposal A and Proposal B.
(as the terms 'Proposal A' and 'Proposal B' are used in this rule).
"

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:02:05 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1841

Proposal 1841
Saving sendmail
Malenkai

This is a Modest Proposal.

Amend R 309, "Substantially Similar Proposals" to append the following
text to the end of the rule:

"
It is a Crime to be the author of both Proposal A and Proposal B.
(as the terms 'Proposal A' and 'Proposal B' are used in this rule).
"

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 19:24:16 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1842

Proposal 1842
Speaking in Double Talk
Malenkai

Amend R 330, "Retractions", to remove the following text:

"
The player retracting the proposal loses 2 points, except during the
first three weeks of eir being a new player (as opposed to a returning
player) in Ackanomic, in which case the player instead will lose no
points.
"

{{[For some reason, there seems to be a reluctance lately to retract
flawed proposals; rather, sometimes it seems players would rather
follow them with a CSR or score another round of points on fixup
proposals.  This doesn't seem like gaming to me -- I'd rather just
get the dis-incentive to retract out of there so we can get the
*correct* proposal through faster.]}}

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Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 23:43:39 -0600
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka:  Proposal 1843

Proposal 1843
Calling an Ad Hoc Committee
Robert Sevin

An ad hoc committee is hereby called. It is called on the matter of Harf
Names. In particular, it is called upon to determine whether Matthew
Harding, biological brother of Mitchell Harding (Acka name: Robert Sevin),
whose email address is [email-masked], should be permitted to use the name
(delimited by quotation marks) "Harf" as his Ackanomic name. This committee
should deliver a report on this matter in accordance with the Sanctity of
Harf rule.

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End of Ackanomic Voting Digest V2 #13
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