Subject: Ackanomic Digest V1 #445
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Ackanomic Digest       Thursday, January 9 1997       Volume 01 : Number 445

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 20:43:11 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1588 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 21 Eligible voters - 10 Players cast votes
9 YES votes - 1 NO votes - 0 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

[ I believe due to vacationing players that quorum was achieved on this
proposal]

Proposal 1588 - Tue, 24 Dec 1996 00:40:33 -0600 (CST)
That was me in Grade 9
fnord (Michael Thomas)

fnord gains 10 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------

Habeous Corpus
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
snowgod                      (None Yet)
breadbox
Swann
Robert Sevin                 Harf
Lestrade
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Malenkai                     Harf

NO Votes:
- --------
ThinMan                      Vulcan

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------

Abstentions:
- -----------

23 Skidoo [ON VACATION]
Bascule
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf
fnord
Jammer
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
AirHead                      Harf
Mohammed

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt
Strider

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------

     Amend Rule 450, "Retractions", by changing the sentence

     "The player retracting the proposal loses 2 points."

     to

     "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."

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 20:47:41 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1590 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 21 Eligible voters - 10 Players cast votes
7 YES votes - 2 NO votes - 1 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

[ I believe due to vacationing players that quorum was achieved on this
proposal]

Proposal 1590 - Tue, 24 Dec 1996 00:49:16 -0600 (CST)
Internomic Entity Exchange of One Eggplant
breadbox (Brian Raiter)

Breadbox gains 5 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------

Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
snowgod                      (None Yet)
breadbox
Swann

Lestrade
/dev/joe                     Vulcan

ThinMan                      Vulcan

NO Votes:
- --------
Malenkai                     Harf
Habeous Corpus

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------

Robert Sevin                 Harf

Abstentions:
- -----------

23 Skidoo [ON VACATION]
Bascule
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf
fnord
Jammer
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
AirHead                      Harf
Mohammed

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt
Strider

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------

     This is a Modest Proposal.

     {{The Victorious Eggplant Trinket no longer exists in Ackanomic.
     It shall be removed from Snowgod's list of possessions, without
     reimbursement.}}

     {{[I really like the discussion about inter-nomic trading, and
     this proposal is in no way meant to usurp that work. But in the
     meantime, we have this one case to clear up, and I thought this
     might be a good time to make use of the trinket loophole.]}}

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 20:45:10 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1589 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 21 Eligible voters - 10 Players cast votes
10 YES votes - 0 NO votes - 0 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

[ I believe due to vacationing players that quorum was achieved on this
proposal]

Proposal 1589 - Tue, 24 Dec 1996 00:47:09 -0600 (CST)
Rule 1539 bugfix I + Identity Crisis
Malenkai (Randy Hall)

Malenkai gains 5 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------

Habeous Corpus
Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
snowgod                      (None Yet)
breadbox
Swann
Robert Sevin                 Harf
Lestrade
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
Malenkai                     Harf
ThinMan                      Vulcan

NO Votes:
- --------

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------

Abstentions:
- -----------

23 Skidoo [ON VACATION]
Bascule
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf
fnord
Jammer
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
AirHead                      Harf
Mohammed

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt
Strider

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------

     This is a Modest proposal.

     -------------------------------------------------------------------

     Amend R 414, "President", to append the following to the end of
     section (iii):

     "This section has precedence over rule 401."

     ------------------------------------------------------------------

     [I guess 'Ackanomic' is our official name. I'm not really sure,
     but we might as well be consistent while I'm here fixing a real
     bug. There are some inconsistencies on the main web page (in
     titles, etc), and Internomic has us as AckaNomic, I believe, but
     that is another issue. There is also 'Ackanomia', I left that
     alone.]

     Amend R 419, "Ambassador" to replace "AckaNomic" with "Ackanomic"
     where it appears

     Amend R 454, "For Personal Glory..." to replace "AckaNomic" with
     "Ackanomic" where it appears

     Amend R 1206, "Games & Contests" to replace "ackanomic" with
     "Ackanomic" where it appears

     Amend R 1349, "Rama-lama-ding-dong" to replace "ackanomic" with
     "Ackanomic" where it appears

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 20:51:38 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1592 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 21 Eligible voters - 10 Players cast votes
8 YES votes - q NO votes - q PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

[ I believe due to vacationing players that quorum was achieved on this
proposal]

Proposal 1592 - Tue, 24 Dec 1996 22:03:30 -0600 (CST)
Ouch Ouch Ouch Ouch
Mohammed (Jason Orendorff)

Breadbox gains 5 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------

Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
snowgod                      (None Yet)
breadbox
Swann
Malenkai                     Harf
/dev/joe                     Vulcan
ThinMan                      Vulcan
Habeous Corpus

NO Votes:
- --------
Lestrade

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------

Robert Sevin                 Harf

Abstentions:
- -----------

23 Skidoo [ON VACATION]
Bascule
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf
fnord
Jammer
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
AirHead                      Harf
Mohammed

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt
Strider

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------

     This is a modest proposal.

     Rule 515/1 ("Trading and Gifts") is amended by changing
     ---
     A trade that offers or requests any entity that is neither
     tradeable nor gift, or that the Player offering the trade doesn't
     own, is illegal. A trade that offers more entities of any type
     than the Player offering the trade owns is illegal.
     ---
     to
     ---
     A trade that offers or requests any entity that is neither
     tradeable nor gift is illegal. A trade that offers more entities
     of any type than the Player offering the trade owns is illegal.
     ---

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 20:54:45 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: That's it 

Well,

It's been fun being your tabulator, but that's it.  I think from now on,
things will be up to Mohammed.  I imagine he'll post a message explaining
procedures shortly.  Thanks for the oppritunity to count your votes and
thanks for putting up with all my blunders and delays.  You're a great
bunch of voters :)

I think all that is left is for President Flychuck to officially appoint
Mohammed as Tabulator.

Ciao,
snowgod
ex-tabulator

PS - I am forwarding all votes and bribes I have recieved to Mohammed.  If
you are not comfortable with this approach, you may wish to resend them to
him.

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 20:50:00 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: P1591 Passes 

Quorum achieved: 21 Eligible voters - 10 Players cast votes
8 YES votes - 0 NO votes - 2 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES

[ I believe due to vacationing players that quorum was achieved on this
proposal]

Proposal 1591 - Tue, 24 Dec 1996 22:01:55 -0600 (CST)
Ouch
Malenkai (Randy Hall)

Breadbox gains 5 points:

YES Votes:
- ---------

Niccolo Flychuck             Vulcan
snowgod                      (None Yet)
breadbox
Swann
Malenkai                     Harf
Lestrade
/dev/joe                     Vulcan

ThinMan                      Vulcan

NO Votes:
- --------

PRESENT Votes:
- -------------

Robert Sevin                 Harf
Habeous Corpus

Abstentions:
- -----------

23 Skidoo [ON VACATION]
Bascule
Clairence
Techno                       Harf
mr cwm                       (None Yet)
Calvin N Hobbes              Harf
fnord
Jammer
Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)
AirHead                      Harf
Mohammed

New Players Who Are Not Yet Active:
- ----------------------------------
BuzzBee
G. Peefalt
Strider

[Am I forgeting anyone?]

Text of Passed Proposal:
- -----------------------

     This is a Modest proposal.

     Amend R 1023, "Auction", to add the following text at the end of
     the section whose first sentence is "Let N be the quantity of
     items up for Auction.":

     "
     If the auction was called by a player, and that player no longer
     has has at least N items at the conclusion of the auction, that
     player is placed in Contempt. If a bidder does not have enough A$
     to honer their bid in either type of auction, they are placed in
     Contempt. In either of these cases, the auction is voided, and
     reinitiated if originally called by the rules.
     "

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 22:43:51 -0800 (PST)
From: "G. Peefalt" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:  Proposal 1618

> 
> renumber R 1586, "Birdhouse in your Soul" to 937

This was rejected, I beleive.

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 23:10:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: RFC Updating the Rule Numbering System

> 	Right.  The counting numbers do not include zero; the whole 
> numbers do.  I chose "whole number" because I see nothing wrong with 
> having a rule 0 or 481.0.

Well, I'm always partial to including zero as a valid number myself
(being a mathematician and a computer programmer). It does go against
current practice, though, so I'm willing to continue to leave it
out. It might be confusing to start having a rule 481.0 which is
different from rule 481.

b

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Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 23:05:46 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Java IRC 

I have placed a java IRC applet on line at

http://wilma.che.utexas.edu/~snowgod

that will connect you with /dev/joe's personal IRC server.  I hope that
this will lead to a new and exciting facet of Ackanomic life.  To use the
client go the URL listed above and wait for the applet to download (it is
approx 187k and should download in between 30 seconds and 2 minutes
depending on your modem spped (faster if you are hardwired)).

Once it has loaded, enter your nickname (preferably some variant on your
ackanomic name) as well as your Real Life Name and your email address.
Then hit the connect button.

With any luck, a new window should appear containing the IRC client.  One
person reported that the Java applet would load but not run, but I have
been unable to reproduce this error.  I reccomend that if you have this
problem you should try clearing your disk cache and reloading.

There are still a few bugs in the client (which I didn't write, only
tinkered with), and I am trying to work them out, but I would like to get
some more feedback from all of you.

If you are unable to support java in your browser, or you choose not to,
you may still access /dev/joe's IRC server by downloading an IRC client (or
often by typing 'irc' at your unix prompt, if that is what you use) and
connecting to wilma.che.utexas.edu on port 9942.

For more information on IRC and clients check out these sites:

http://shoga.wwa.com/~edge/newbie.html
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/Chat/IRC/

Known BUGS:

!) When you enter the chat channel, there may be a mesage in your text
entry window indicating something like "You may only listen" or somesuch.
I have found that I am able to ignore this message and enter text just
fine.  Others apperantly have had problems sop you may wish to try
switching rooms, and then switching back to #Ackanomic.  This should clear
up the problem if you have it.

If this problem persists we can easily set up a bot that would grant +v
(voice) privlidges to any player entering a room.

2) When you try to close the client a confirmatin screen may pop up asking
you if you really wish to do so.  If, after clicking yes, the confirmation
does not leave the screen click 'no' and it should.

3) /dev/joe wrote the following to me (After informing me that the client
wouldn't run on his system):

>I found that my problem was that netscape wasn't handling Java correctly
>when it was running in private colormap mode.  It would put up a
>box saying it couldn't allocate a default background color, and then not
>load the applet.
>
>In shared colormap mode, it loaded the applet, but for some reason it told
>me that I could only listen in channel #Ackanomic, even though nobody else
>was there, although I could go to another channel and talk OK.
>When I tried to leave the channel, netscape crashed with a bus error.

BTW,  I am working on setting up another simpler IRC client also, and
giving players the choice of which to use (they can both be used in
conjunction) so that you may use the client that best suits your needs.

I encoursge everyone to check out the client and tell me what you think.

have fun,
snowgod

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 02:37:11 -0600 (CST)
From: T Joffrain <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Java IRC 

At 11:05 PM 08-01-97 -0900, Phil Ackley wrote:
>I have placed a java IRC applet on line at
>
>http://wilma.che.utexas.edu/~snowgod

I'm online now, and I'm trying it. Works ok, except for the "may only
listen" message. Looks like I can open another window to type messages, read
the replies only from the first. It's a neat setup.

Very cool, very nicely set up. Are we going to try and organize something?

CnH

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 00:22:57 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Java IRC 

>At 11:05 PM 08-01-97 -0900, Phil Ackley wrote:
>>I have placed a java IRC applet on line at
>>
>>http://wilma.che.utexas.edu/~snowgod
>
>I'm online now, and I'm trying it. Works ok, except for the "may only
>listen" message. Looks like I can open another window to type messages, read
>the replies only from the first. It's a neat setup.
>
>Very cool, very nicely set up. Are we going to try and organize something?
>
>CnH

I'm working on that may only listen message.  I think I have a couple of
ideas.  For some reason, it doesn't effect me (insert comment about the
superiority of the Mac platform here :) but I know it really needs to be
fixed.

as for setting soemthing up, id anyone else interested?

snowgod

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 00:51:32 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Auctions 

Could whoever knows please post a list of all the auctions that are
currently going on, when they end, and who to send bids to?

Thanks a million,
snowgod

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:24:37 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: Official - Tabulator

I'd like to thank snowgod for Tabulating our voting results. It's been fun
to read them.

I now appoint Mohammed as Tabulator.

Niccolo Flychuck
President

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:37:24 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka:PartyChess

I confirm the legality of this move.

Niccolo Flychuck
Chess-Umpire
On Wed, 8 Jan 1997, Stephen McCulley wrote:

> Salutations!!
> 
> 		For my turn, I place my Camel on the board at k4.
> 
> 
> 
> 			Regards,
> 				Strider
> 
> 
> (off and running!)
> 

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 05:55:37 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Big Spelling Bee Flight

I haven't been watching for errors every time there are changes
made to the rules, so I haven't been watching everything that
goes in.  As a result, 74 of our 220 rules have a total of
185 changes to be made now, in the longest spelling bee flight
for rules ever made (the big CFJ fixer was longer).

The most commonly misspelled words were:
  Alcoholic (alchoholic once, alchololic 5 times)
  Announce, announced, announcing, announcement -
    misspelled 19 times, usually by leaving out one of the double n's.
  Chartreuse (Chartruese 6 times, Chartreuse once)
  Determined/determining was misspelled 3 different ways in 3 different rules.
  Organization(s) was misspelled 3 different ways in the same rule.
  Preceding was misspelled preceeding once each in 7 rules.

The Spelling Bee is flying!

Rule 101, change "lingusitic" to "linguistic" (2nd paragraph).
Rule 106, change "Non-entites" to "Non-entities" (last paragraph).
Rule 207, change "preceeding" to "preceding" (last paragraph).
Rule 208, change "occurrance" to "occurrence" (section 1c),
  change "ctaegorizied" to "categorized" (section 6),
  fix the label on section 3e to be 3c.
Rule 213, change "delive" to "deliver" (in first paragraph).
Rule 222, change "th" to "the" (in first paragraph),
  change "Chartruese" to "Chartreuse" wherever it appears (6 times),
  change "Somewhwere" to "Somewhere" (2nd paragraph),
  change "eligable" to "eligible" wherever it appears (6 times),
  change "preferrably" to "preferably" (2nd paragraph),
  change "eddible" to "edible" (2nd paragraph),
  change "possesing" to "possessing" (4th paragraph),
  change "non-eligable" to "non-eligible" (4th paragraph).
Rule 235, change "Chartreuese" to "Chartreuse" (1st paragraph).
Rule 251, change "appliccable" to "applicable" (2nd paragraph).
Rule 252, change "adress" to "address" wherever it appears (twice),
  change "regisration" to "registration" (3rd paragraph start).
Rule 256, change "assiciated" to "associated" (step 6).
Rule 401, change "unambigiously" to "unambiguously" (section xi),
  change "feaseable" to "feasible" (section xi).
Rule 405, change "preceeding" to "preceding" (section viii).
Rule 408, change "Ackaonmic" to "Ackanomic" (in duties of count tabula).
Rule 412, change "Priveleges" to "Privileges" (Priveleges of the Financier).
Rule 424, change "privelege" to "privilege" (2nd paragraph after duties).
Rule 425, change "nonexistant" to "nonexistent" (section I).
Rule 450, change "announed" to "announced" (1st paragraph).
Rule 495, change "entitiy" to "entity" (1st paragraph).
Rule 500.1, change "deterimining" to "determining" (2nd paragraph).
Rule 511, change "recieves" to "receives" wherever it appears (twice),
  change "recieve" to "receive" (last paragraph).
Rule 512, change "quanitity" to "quantity" (section 2c).
Rule 513, change "possesion" to "possession" (3rd paragraph).
Rule 542, change "Politcal" to "Political" (just after charter req. list).
Rule 543, change "determinded" to "determined" (last paragraph).
Rule 593, change "tradebable" to "tradeable" (section I.B),
  change "preceeding" to "preceding" (section II),
  change "offcie" to "office" (section III).
Rule 594, change "specificaion" to "specification" (section iv),
  change "Entites" to "Entities" (section v).
Rule 670, change "Comissioners" to "Commissioners" (section 1),
  change "Comission" to "Commission" whenever it appears not in quotes (2x),
  change "permissable" to "permissible" (section 2),
  change "accessable" to "accessible" (section 2),
  change "registereed" to "registered" (section 7),
  change "stil" to "still" (section 7).
Rule 710, change "permissable" to "permissible" (section 7c).
Rule 716, change "preceeding" to "preceding" (section 1),
  change "Gaoloer" to "Gaoler" (section 1).
Rule 720, change "Instiution" to "Institution" (section 2c).
Rule 721, change "deteremined" to "determined" (section 2),
  change "Orgnization" to "Organization" (section 2d),
  change "Orgnaization" to "Organization" (section 2e),
  change "Organiztions" to "Organizations" (section 3b),
  change "non-vactioning" to "non-vacationing" (section 3c).
Rule 726, change "bplayers" to "players" (section b on impeachment),
  change "anounce" to "announce" wherever it appears (twice).
Rule 730, change "ramdomly" to "randomly" (2nd paragraph).
Rule 841, change "contruct" to "construct" (section 4),
  change "perfrom" to "perform" (section 7).
Rule 843, change "messge" to "message" (section 3),
  change "receiv" to "receive" (section 3),
  change "preceeding" to "preceding" (section 5),
  change "relavant" to "relevent" (section 6, not in quotes),
  change "deliniate" to "delineate" (section 9).
Rule 850, change "relavent" to "relevent" (section II),
  change "occurrances" to "occurrences" wherever it appears (3 times),
  change "occurrance" to "occurrence" (section V),
  change "infintesimal" to "infinitesimal" (section VII),
  change "afterwords" to "afterwards" (section VII).
Rule 891, change "calender" to "calendar" (2nd paragraph).
Rule 985, change "bu" to "by" (link to Chess rules).
Rule 1022, change "ia" to "is" (section 1),
  in section 5b, fix the numbering of the list by changing the second
    subsection g to be subsection h.
Rule 1023, change "relavant" to "relevant" (section 4).
Rule 1112.3, change "Inquistition" to "Inquisition" (first paragraph).
Rule 1155, change "relavent" to "relevent" (6th paragraph),
  change "Ackanonic" to "Ackanomic" (last paragraph).
Rule 1206, change "seperate" to "separate" (section 4),
  change "permissable" to "permissible" (section 7e).
  change "preceeding" to "preceding" (section 9).
Rule 1237, change "succesful" to "successful" (1st paragraph),
  change "withe" to "with" (3rd paragraph),
  change "apeice" to "apiece" (3rd paragraph),
  change "Alchoholic" to "Alcoholic" (3rd paragraph).
Rule 1240, change "Politness" to "Politeness" (section VI, paragraph 2),
  change "randon" to "random" (section IX, last paragraph).
Rule 1253, change "exausted" to "exhausted" (2nd paragraph).
Rule 1269, change "excludings" to "excluding" (section 1),
  change "Swinger points" to "Swingpoints" (section 2c),
  change "Swingerpoint" to "Swingpoints" (section 2c).
  change "vonvert" to "convert" (section 5a),
  change "anouncing" to "announcing" (section 5b).
Rule 1276, change "maintainence" to "maintenance" (1st section H),
  change "immediatly" to "immediately" (2nd section H),
  fix the numbering of the sections by changing "G)" to "G." and
  changing the second "H." to "I."
Rule 1302, change "anounces" to "announces" whevere it appears (twice),
  change "confrom" to "conform" (section 2, 4th paragraph),
  change "preceeding" to "preceding" (section 2, 4th paragraph),
  change "forefeit" to "forfeit" (section 2, 4th paragraph),
  change "annouce" to "announce" (section 2, 7th paragraph).
Rule 1306, change "consistant" to "consistent" (1st paragraph).
Rule 1307.1, change "seperate" to "separate" wherever it appears (twice).
Rule 1330, in the title, change "Effecs" to "Effects".
Rule 1335, change "immediatly" to "immediately" (6th paragraph),
  change "onwer" to "owner" (6th paragraph),
  change "foung" to "found" (7th paragraph).
Rule 1344, change "Unfortuantely" to "Unfortunately" (2nd paragraph).
Rule 1348.2, change "existance" to "existence" (7th paragraph).
Rule 1349, change "sylables" to "syllables" (1st paragraph),
  change "suctions" to "suction" (2nd paragraph).
Rule 1356, change "withint" to "within" (section 5c),
  change "destoryed" to "destroyed" (section 5c),
  change "Suynod" to "Synod" (section 8),
  change "amound" to "amount" (section 8),
  change "Syond" to "Synod" (section 10),
Rule 1386, change "Vonus" to "Vote" (section 7, in "Bonus Vonus").
Rule 1428, change "scortching" to "scorching" (first paragraph),
  change "addituional" to "additional" (2nd paragraph).
Rule 1519, change "Thingeess" to "Thingees" (a kaa of land holds...).
Rule 1540.2, change "crated" to "created" (1st paragraph),
  change "precidence" to "precedence" (just before section viii).
Rule 1564, change "occurence" to "occurrence" (section 3).
Rule 1579, change "Torkula" to "Torkola" (1st paragraph),
  change "alchololic" to "alcoholic" wherever it appears (5 times),
  change "anounced" to "announced" (1st paragraph),
  change "ineligeble" to "ineligible" (1st paragraph).
Rule 985.1, change "anounces" to "announces" (section 2.D.iv),
  change "propery" to "property" (section 2.D.iv),
  change "tha" to "the" (section 2.D.iv).
Rule 985.2, change "anounces" to "announces" (section 2.H.ii.a),
  change "begining" to "beginning" wherever it appears (3 times),
  change "surrendred" to "surrendered" (section 2.H.ii.b),
  change "chekced" to "checked" (section 2.H.ii.b),
  change "Asisstant" to "Assistant" (section 3.D.iv),
  fix the numbers on the subsections of section 1.C. by changing the
    second subsection vii to be subsection viii.
Rule 985.6, change "respresented" to "represented" (section 1),
  change "chracter" to "character" (section 1).
Rule 985.13, change "consist's" to "consists" (section 3),
  change "intergers" to "integers" (section 3a),
  change "unocuupied" to "unoccupied" (section 3b).
Rule 985.15, change "decribed" to "described" (section 3).
Rule 1369.1, change "inthe" to "in the" (section II.6),
  change "begining" to "beginning" (section III.4),
  change "Probablistic" to "Probabilistic" (section III.6a),
  change "Probabalistic" to "Probabilistic" (section III.6a),
  change "Probablility" to "Probability" (section III.6a),
  change "anounce" to "announce" (section III.6a),
  change "anounces" to "announces" (2nd section III.6c),
  change "anounced" to "announced" wherever it appears (twice),
  change "uss" to "use" (section V.11b),
  in section III.6, fix the subsection numbers by changing the second
    subsection c to be subsection e.
Rule 1369.2, change "anouncing" to "announcing" (section 2a),
  change "anouncement" to "announcement" (section 2a),
  change "non-ambigous" to "non-ambiguous" (section 2a).
Rule 1369.6, change "anounces" to "announces" (first paragraph),
  change "anamount" to "an amount" (first paragraph),
  change "anounced" to "announced" (first paragraph),
  change "anounce" to "announce" (2nd paragraph),
  change "originaly" to "originally" (2nd paragraph),
  change "tha" to "the" (2nd paragraph).
Rule 1369.7, change "inthe" to "in the" (first paragraph),
  change "transferrs" to "transfers" (first paragraph).
Rule 1369.12, change "undisgusied" to "undisguised" (third paragraph),
  change "unambigiously" to "unambiguously" (third paragraph),
  change "locacted" to "located" (third paragraph).
Rule 1369.13, change "unamibiguously" to "unambiguously" (section 2),

/dev/joe
Web-Harfer

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 04:22:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Brian Raiter <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Big Spelling Bee Flight

> I haven't been watching for errors every time there are changes
> made to the rules, so I haven't been watching everything that
> goes in.  As a result, 74 of our 220 rules have a total of
> 185 changes to be made now, in the longest spelling bee flight
> for rules ever made (the big CFJ fixer was longer).
> 
> The Spelling Bee is flying!

Hooray! All hail /dev/joe and the Spelling Bee!

breadbox

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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 07:19:51 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: P1589 Passes

Phil Ackley wrote:
> 
> Quorum achieved: 21 Eligible voters - 10 Players cast votes
> 10 YES votes - 0 NO votes - 0 PRESENT votes - Proposal PASSES
> 
> [ I believe due to vacationing players that quorum was achieved on this
> proposal]

> Abstentions:
> -----------
> 
> 23 Skidoo [ON VACATION]
> Guy Fawkes                   (None Yet)

Guy Fawkes is on vacation as well.

Malenkai

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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 07:29:56 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Auctions

Phil Ackley wrote:
 
> Could whoever knows please post a list of all the auctions that are
> currently going on, when they end, and who to send bids to?

The Otzma auction is over.  I will publish results when I get a 
chance.  The evil ballot stuffer auction ends today at 09:01 EST,
or after the latest bid, whichever is later.  Bids in this auction are
sent to [email-masked].

Chief Cheese

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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 08:26:09 -0500
From: Malenkai <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Otzma Auction Results

Otzma Auction results:

Share your income: Strider and Niccolo both bid A$50.  Niccolo wins
the auction by random means.

Go Fish (2): /dev/joe wins one with A$2, Mohammed wins one with A$1.

Tactical Retreat: Niccolo wins with A$50.

Share my Expenses:  /dev/joe wins with A$4.

Malenkai +11 Commission.

Some of these prices (mabye all of them), are unbelievable.  There were
lower bids which as well.

Chief Cheese

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 09:00:54 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Auctions

>The evil ballot stuffer auction ends today at 09:01 EST,
>or after the latest bid, whichever is later.  Bids in this auction are
>sent to [email-masked].

Having seen no evidence of other bids for the Evil Ballot Stuffer, I
bid A$ 25 for it.

ThinMan

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Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 10:06:58 -0600
From: Eric Freeman <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Big Spelling Bee Flight

Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
> 
> The Spelling Bee is flying!
> 
> Rule 101, change "lingusitic" to "linguistic" (2nd paragraph).
> Rule 106, change "Non-entites" to "Non-entities" (last paragraph).
> etc.

I just ran the Rule Set thru my spell checker and was about to post 
something similar.  For a bunch of (presumably) educated people, 
there's a lot of bad spelling going on out there (y'all don't speak
Ebonics, do ya?).

AirHead

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 18:19:53 +0200 (EET)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Auctions

On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Bollinger, John C. wrote:

> >The evil ballot stuffer auction ends today at 09:01 EST,
> >or after the latest bid, whichever is later.  Bids in this auction are
> >sent to [email-masked].
> 
> Having seen no evidence of other bids for the Evil Ballot Stuffer, I
> bid A$ 25for it.
> 
> ThinMan
> 
I bid A$31

Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 11:28:18 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Auctions

I bid A$ 52 for the Evil Ballot Stuffer.

ThinMan

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 13:00:56 -0500
From: [email-masked] (Steven A. Swiniarski)
Subject: Acka: Auction

I bid a$60 for the evil ballot stuffer thingie.

Swann

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 11:51:12 -0800
From: [email-masked] (John Martin Lotz)
Subject: Acka  Auction

 I did 65 for the Evil Ballot stuffer Thingie

Jammer

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:01:48 -0800
From: [email-masked] (John Martin Lotz)
Subject: Acka  FAQ's

Does anyone have any comments abot the HTML FAQ's I put together
any changes, additions, deletions 

Jammer

John-Martibn Lotz
[email-masked]

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 14:31:29 -0600 (CST)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Proposal 1620

Proposal 1620
Goblin
Swann

Create a Rule entitled "Proposing Things" with the following text
delimited by "~";

~

     Anything designated by the rules as a Proposing Thing may submit a 
     proposal to be voted on.  All Proposing Things must have a player 
     designated to e-mail its Proposals to the appropriate officer. (If 
     there is no such Player, the Proposing Thing may make Proposals, 
     but not submit them.)  Players are Proposing Things, and each 
     player is designated to e-mail eir own proposals.

     If there is to be any bonus or penalty applied to a Proposing Thing 
     based on a proposal it made, or on the voting on that proposal, it 
     shall only be applied if the bonus/penalty specifically applies 
     itself to that type of Proposing Thing. [i.e. all rules that refer 
     to the "player who proposed <foo> shall only apply when the 
     Proposing Thing was a Player.]  If the bonus/penalty does not 
     specifically apply itself to a specific type of Proposing Thing, 
     then it shall only be applied to players.

~

Create another rule entitled "The Manic Rule Goblin" with the following text 
delimited by "~";

~

     There is a unique Proposing Thing named The Manic Rule Goblin which 
     rarely, if ever, makes any sense.  The Manic Rule Goblin only makes
     modest proposals.  Whenever there is no rantee, the officer in
     charge of random things shall determine the player that the Manic
     Rule Goblin appears to.

     The Manic Rule Goblin appears, grabs the chosen player by the 
     shoulders, and gibbers a proposal.  That player, becomes the 
     rantee, and is designated to e-mail the Goblin's gibbered proposal 
     (appropriately credited to the Goblin) to the appropriate officer.

     The rantee shall decipher the Goblin's gibbering as follows:

     E shall secretly pick a current Rule as being the one most closely 
     resembling the gist of the Goblin's rant. E shall use this Rule as 
     the basic text of the Goblin's rant.  Of course, since the Goblin 
     rarely makes that much sense, the rantee shall delete 3 to 10 
     nouns, 3 to 10 verbs, 0 to 5 adjective, and 0 to 5 adverbs, from 
     the basic text of the Goblin's proposal. E shall note each part of 
     speech (as well as tense, number &c.) for each gap where a word had 
     been deleted.

     E shall then publicly ask the players of Acka (who may have 
     overheard what the Goblin actually said) for more Rules, without 
     revealing the one e has chosen eimself.  Helpful players shall then 
     post their own suggested Rules. If the rantee fails to do this 
     within a week of the Goblin ranting at eim, e is deemed to have wax 
     in his ears, loses 3 points, and ceases to be rantee.

     Once the other players have suggested at least two rules that do 
     not duplicate the one selected by the rantee, the rantee shall fill 
     in the gaps in the basic text with words from the suggested rules 
     with the following restrictions:

      i) The word filling the gap must be the same part of speech as the 
         deleted word (i.e. noun, verb, adjective, adverb)
     ii) The word filling the gap may not be the same as the word that 
         was deleted.
    iii) The Nth part of speech in the basic text must be replaced by 
         the Nth part of speech from a suggested rule (i.e. If the basic 
         text is missing the second noun, that gap must be filled by the 
         second noun from a suggested rule.)

     The rantee may change the form of a word to fit it in the basic 
     text as long as its part of speach does not change. (i.e. if the 
     original verb is past tense, it may be replaced by a present tense 
     verb, and the rantee may change the tense of the new verb to match 
     the original. E may not, however, replace an adjective with a noun, 
     even if he changes the noun into a possessive by adding "'s")

     When the rantee has filled all the gaps in the basic text, e must 
     submit that text in a proposal for a Rule creation, with the basic
     text being the text of the rule being created.  The rantee may
     title proposal and this rule in any way e wishes.  (The Goblin
     cares little for titles:)

     The rantee has one week from the receipt of the second (non-
     duplicate) rule suggestion to assemble the text of the Goblin's 
     Proposal and submit it.

     If the rantee asked the players to suggest rules, but does not 
     assemble the Goblin's Proposal and submit it within a week of the 
     second rule being suggested, e has insulted the Goblin, ceases to 
     be rantee, and loses 5 points.  E may also never be selected as 
     rantee again until e makes a public apology to the Goblin.

     If the Goblin's proposal fails, the rantee gains 6 points for eir 
     trouble, and ceases to be rantee; the Goblin sulks.

     If the Goblin's proposal passes, the rantee gains 12 points for 
     getting the rant right, and ceases to be rantee; the Goblin dances.

~

#end proposal

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:11:29 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Official 

I volunteer for the functional office of Registrar

snowgod

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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 17:04:24 -0600 (CST)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: More Spelling Bee

I clearly worked on that Spelling Bee stuff way too late last night, because
I misspelled either the misspelled or corrected words in 8 or the 180-odd
stingings.  This flight fixes these errors and a few other things I found.
The new rules with these corrections are now up on the web page.

BTW, I was doing some cleaning around here and I ran across a little
curiosity.  Back from when I has just joined the game, I printed out what
was then the rule set and list of players/offices.  The rule set (67 rules)
fit on a little over 18 pages back then, and there were only 14 players
(2 who basically never did anything in Ackanomic and got ejected by the
dead players rule eventually).  Of the current players, only Robert Sevin,
Calvin N Hobbes, mr cwm, Mohammed, and Malenkai were there; ThinMan and
fnord were observers at the time.

When I made the big spelling bee flight last time, besides looking for
misnumbered sections and a couple random errors I happened to find,
I only used mistakes that ispell found on a HTML-free copy of the rules
I produced from lynx.  Lynx told me the rules would take 144 pages to
print, and this was without the chess and otzma rules.

The Spelling Bee is flying!

Rule 208, change "categorizied" to "categorized" (section 6).
Rule 408, change "Ackaonimc" to "Ackanomic" (in duties of count tabula).
Rule 843, change "relavant" or "relevent" to "relevant"
  (section 6, not in quotes).
Rule 850, change "relavent" or "relevent" to "relevant" (section II),
  change "infintestimal" to "infinitesimal" (section VII),
Rule 1155, change "relavent" or "relevent" to "relevant" (6th paragraph).
Rule 1237, add a period to the end of the last paragraph.
Rule 1269, change "Swinger" to "Swingers" in section 1.
  ("the number of Swingers, excluding Swinger on Vacation...")
Rule 1519, in the last part, capitalize "a" in "a Space" and "a Kaa"
  and insert periods after the last three occurrences of "Thingees".
Rule 985.1, section 2.D., add a period at the end of each of
  subsections ii and v.
Rule 985.15, add periods to the end of sections 1, 2 and 4.
Rule 1369.6, change "tha" to "the" wherever it appears in the 2nd paragraph.
Rule 1369.12, change "locacated" to "located" (third paragraph).

/dev/joe
Web-Harfer.

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