Subject: Ackanomic Digest V2 #146
From: [email-masked] (Ackanomic Digest)
To: ackanomic-digest

Ackanomic Digest       Wednesday, June 18 1997       Volume 02 : Number 146

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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 21:46:54 -0800
From: "Ross Morgan-Linial" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Silver Shovel

I am creating a trinket called the Silver Shovel, worth A$100. It is a shovel 
made out of pure silver with the letters "ABJ LBH UNIR GNXRA HC GUR PUNYYARATR" 
carved on the handle in flowing script. It is said to be greatly prized by 
treasure-finders, and legend has it that the ancients favor players who bury 
the Silver Shovel after finding it.

I am creating a contract called the Silver Shovel Contract, which reads as 
follows:

  The holder of the Silver Shovel is bound by these restrictions:
  E may not destroy, or allow the destruction of, the Silver Shovel.
  E may not destroy, or allow the destruction of, the Silver Shovel Contract.
  E may not give the Silver Shovel to a player who has not signed the Silver 
  Shovel Contract, or bury it with a map that allows it to be found by a player 
  who has not signed the Silver Shovel Contract.
  E may not hold onto the Silver Shovel for more than one week.

I am signing the Silver Shovel contract.
I am burying 5 PFAntimatter and the Silver Shovel. The following may or may not 
have anything to do with the map:

seek nodded me at ill atropal not hi smear tot he a row pint the alters annis 
altar this or neo a fit sheen spills veer rest hi of vie alert urn messy

I hope that's not too hard - but if you don't want to find the Silver Shovel, 
or even if you do, you may want to skip this puzzle.

#trinket Antimatter:Silver Shovel:150
#transfer Antimatter, buried:Silver Shovel
#transfer Antimatter, buried:5 PFAntimatter
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Antimatter * [email-masked]
You have the power of negation.

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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 21:46:54 -0800
From: "Ross Morgan-Linial" <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Vacation

"Bascule" <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Thought this was private mail, didn't mean to send it to the list, 
> sorry

I accuse Bascule of having sno-... nah.
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Antimatter * [email-masked]
You have the power of negation.

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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 22:41:33 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: money 

>/dev/joe wrote:
>> I am donating "money" to snowgod for an earth defense laser.
>
>I have donated money to snowgod for an earth defense laser.
>
>/dev/joe

Proving once again that it takes money to make money, /dev/joe has found
the repayment treasure, though his attempt was outside the intent of the
contract.

Mr. Fringe

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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:46:25 -0700
From: **Alexandre Muniz <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Silver Shovel

Ross Morgan-Linial wrote:
> 
> I am creating a trinket called the Silver Shovel, worth A$100. It is a shovel
> made out of pure silver with the letters "ABJ LBH UNIR GNXRA HC GUR PUNYYARATR"
> carved on the handle in flowing script. It is said to be greatly prized by
> treasure-finders, and legend has it that the ancients favor players who bury
> the Silver Shovel after finding it.
> 
> I am creating a contract called the Silver Shovel Contract, which reads as
> follows:
> 
>   The holder of the Silver Shovel is bound by these restrictions:
>   E may not destroy, or allow the destruction of, the Silver Shovel.
>   E may not destroy, or allow the destruction of, the Silver Shovel Contract.
>   E may not give the Silver Shovel to a player who has not signed the Silver
>   Shovel Contract, or bury it with a map that allows it to be found by a player
>   who has not signed the Silver Shovel Contract.
>   E may not hold onto the Silver Shovel for more than one week.
> 

If it is legal for me to do so, I am signing the silver shovel contract.

**two-star
Unoffical Expert in Shovels

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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:10:19 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: New Players (breadbox, Mr. Fringe)

Attention Citizens,

Your registrar requires your imediate attention.  Please pay heed or face
immediate extermination.

It is my duty and privlidge to introduce to you, in no particluar order,
two new voting players in Ackanomic.  The first one is Michelle Stevens
<[email-masked]>, who has chosen Sammy as her Ackanomic name.  In
response to the market research question she writes

>Someone on the TMBG mailing list mentioned it, and included the web
>address, and it looked interesting.

And then there is Gavin Doig <[email-masked]>.  He has chosen, for his
ackanomic name Rex Mundi.  In response to the Market Research question he
writes:

>On the They Might Be Giants mailing list.

I have been selected as mentor for Sammy.  breadbox has been selected as
Mentor for Rex Mundi

Please please please welcome them to this great game ours.

Mr. Lunatic Fringe.

Registrar

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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:14:09 -0800
From: "Ross Morgan-Linial" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Silver Shovel

**Alexandre Muniz <[email-masked]> wrote:
> If it is legal for me to do so, I am signing the silver shovel contract.

That was quick. **two-star has found the Silver Shovel and 5 PFAntimatter. The 
map read:

The first player who has signed the Silver Shovel Contract to send Antimatter a 
correct translation of the runes on the Silver Shovel will find this treasure.

#transfer buried, **two-star:Silver Shovel
#transfer buried, **two-star:5 PFAntimatter

I encourage **two-star to not bury the Silver Shovel alone, and to let everyone 
else decode the runes themselves (it's REALLY easy).
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Antimatter * [email-masked]
You have the power of negation.

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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 23:24:38 -0800
From: "Ross Morgan-Linial" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: New Players (breadbox, Mr. Fringe)

Phil Ackley <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Please please please welcome them to this great game ours.

MUHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahaha!!!!!!

Sorry.

Welcome! If you haven't read the ruleset yet, I would recommend you do so, 
except that *I* haven't read the ruleset since before I joined, so I can't 
guarantee that it won't cause lasting trauma. I do recommend waiting for a week 
or two before jumping into the thick of things, unless you find doing that sort 
of thing fun, in which case I would recommend jumping into the thick of things 
immediately, before you know what's going on (kind of like the rest of us do... :-)
Oh, yeah, one last thing. *Please* don't step on the steel flea.

I wish I had a Whamiol right now...
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Antimatter * [email-masked]
You have the power of negation.

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 04:21:33 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: President

On Sat, 14 Jun 1997, Malenkai wrote:

> Mohammed is elected president.

Thanks to everyone who voted for me.  I've been afk for a few days and
am surprised to find that at least one of my potential Cabinet
ministers voted for another candidate.  Interesting....

So down to business.  I will commence to reading the ruleset when
duties and other pursuits allow it; in the meantime I'll be slogging
through the 377 acka messages in my Acka box.

Love,

- -- 
Mohammed
A dog from Canada will meet three scientists from Honolulu in a game of
football on a trial basis.

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 04:40:49 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fat Lady

On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Malenkai wrote:
> step e) Tax
> 
> If the A$+Trinket value exceeds the amount in the
> Treasury, a 20% tax (10% to winner) occurs.  I do not
> know if this is the case, the Financier should know
> this, though.
	According to my approximations it's not even close.

- -- 
Mohammed
Russians from Zaire will meet a curious politician in a game of football
more than once.

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 05:19:24 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: P2059 accepted (Amung Gods)

> > > OK, I don't know how one "loses" a CFJ.  If CV1701 means had a CFJ that
> > 
> > The CFJ goes Somewhere Else. Or to the treasury. :)
> 
> If it goes to Somewhere Else, then I should ahve no trouble finding it.  I
> have lots of stuff in my house now, but no CFJs so far as I know, so it
> should stand out pretty well...
	Actually, to say that something "is Somewhere Else" is not to
say that it is *in* your house, (that would be "is in Somewhere Else")
but rather, that it *is* your house.  Everything not owned by some
entity is your house.
	(That would mean all entities are now owned by something.
Implying recursive ownership, somewhere.  But I think the old meaning
of the rule sticks despite your house's new name.)

- -- 
Mohammed
O to be a farmer in Nome!

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 05:26:31 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Creation of a Trinket

On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Mitchell Harding wrote:

> I am creating a trinket. It is an adhesive capital letter H, which can be
> placed on my forehead conveniently. It has a value of A$2 and is colored
> gold. It is named Adhesive Capital H
> 
> #trinket Robert Sevin : Adhesive Capital H : 2 : ?
	I also got a tape of the first episodes of Red Dwarf for my
birthday.  I had seen the 12 episodes following the third one, so the
first three (now that I've seen them) clear up quite a bit there.

- -- 
Mohammed
For the hell of it, a Russian from Yale nuked zebras from Juneau.

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 05:36:07 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: Acka: Treasures Found

> I do not see the gizz in my mailer (MS-Exchange), but I do see the
> messages complete with formatting, colors, fonts, underlining, etc..  I
> therefore assume that Glug's mailer is sending messages in MS RTF.  I
> thought that RTF was supposed to be transparent to mailers that don't
> understand it (being coded as a pseudo-attachment, or something like
> that), but clearly Malenkai's mailer is not handling the messages in
> question correctly.
	I couldn't care less about seeing the little "Oops, there's a
MIME attachment here of a type I can't read" message at the bottom of
my window... what makes me wary is that the attachment is in the
neighborhood of 6K.  That had better be some darn rich text for 6K of
formatting on a 2-line message.
	'Course, I rarely get a message less than 1K anyway...
	You gotta love any mailer that dumps core when you reply to
mail sent from a Microsoft app.  Using vi to do mail, Malenkai?

- -- 
Mohammed
Martians threatened a single Martian on multiple occasions.

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 05:48:34 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFCJ 135 Appeal (SC)

On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Phil Ackley wrote:
> I encourage the SC to uphold Judge Bascule (The original justice (with
> malenkai) it might be noted)'s verdict.  If anything, the penalty should be
> upped :) Remember, it's just a game.
	Ditto!  Har!

- -- 
Mohammed
President

"How much do you have in mind?" Rikki asked the foreman, and the room
was quiet again.  Very still and quiet.
	"A billion," Nicholas said with a completely straight face.
It landed like a percussion bomb on the center of the table.  Mouths
fell open and eyes bulged. . . .
	--John Grisham, _The Runaway Jury_

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 05:51:52 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: CFCJ 135 Appeal (SC)

> just a game, sort of way).  Saying that Malenkai should just grin and bear
> it because it is just a game is silly though.  Would you, if you were
> being sent into debt over something like this?  Would anyone?  
	Sure.  Despite Malenkai's occasional use of language that gets
interpreted as a little aggressive, I'm sure he enjoys the ear out of
this game and would do so equally in poverty or insane riches.

- -- 
Mohammed
A stork from Canada got into a shouting match with an alien.

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 05:56:47 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: New Players (breadbox, Mr. Fringe)

> It is my duty and privlidge to introduce to you, in no particluar order,
> two new voting players in Ackanomic.  The first one is Michelle Stevens
> <[email-masked]>, who has chosen Sammy as her Ackanomic name.  In
> response to the market research question she writes
> 
> >Someone on the TMBG mailing list mentioned it, and included the web
> >address, and it looked interesting.
> 
> And then there is Gavin Doig <[email-masked]>.  He has chosen, for his
> ackanomic name Rex Mundi.  In response to the Market Research question he
> writes:
> 
> >On the They Might Be Giants mailing list.

Sort of a theme here, isn't there?  As the owner of a Prosthetic Forehead
and a Rock To Wind A String Around, not to mention, up until recently, the
Lucky Ball & Chain and Exquisite Dead Guy, let me welcome the two of you to
Ackanomic, and I hope my Whammy Oil proposal goes through real quick.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--They Might Be Giants:Mr. Me
Current Book--Jo Clayton:The Snares of Ibex
"I am a thought-balloon of shame!"

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 07:05:41 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Fat Lady

> 	According to my approximations it's not even close.
	Double oops.  Ouch.

- -- 
Mohammed
A sensational transparent weird chauffeur from Honduras plans to lock
dissident dogs in a big safe.

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 06:37:34 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Exquisite Treasure

> > "This Ackanomic-inspired pangram contains one a, twelve b's, six c's,
> > nineteen d's, five e's, zero f's, two g's, seven i's, one j, twenty-seven
> > k's, thirteen l's, ninety-nine m's, three n's, four o's, six p's, twelve
> > q's, four r's, eighteen s's, nine t's, one u, one v, eleven w's, one x,
> > three y's, and twenty-four z's."
> 
> Hmm, looks like the pangram stuff is in chapter 3 of Metamagical 
> Themas, and Nomic is in chapter 4. Coincidence? I think not. The self 
> replicating ideas are conspiring to enslave our minds!

Actually, I first heard of pangrams in _The Armchair Universe_, by one of
Hofstadter's(and Gardner's)successors in the pages of Scientific American,
A.K. Dewdney.  Highly recommended.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--The Hooters:Seven Days A Week
Current Book--Jo Clayton:The Snares of Ibex
Lucille was secretly thrilled when Norman sucked her toaster.  [B. Kliban]

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 08:51:53 -0500
From: "Bollinger, John C." <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Challenge Accepted!

I have the honor of announcing that /dev/joe accepts Alfvaen's
ill-advised
challenge to duel, and that I will serve as his second.  Let Alfvaen
prepare
himself for resounding defeat in a game of Tromino Go.

ThinMan
/dev/joe's second

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 08:21:20 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Challenge Accepted!

> I have the honor of announcing that /dev/joe accepts Alfvaen's
> ill-advised challenge to duel, and that I will serve as his second.
> Let Alfvaen prepare himself for resounding defeat in a game of Tromino
> Go.

I am prepared!  Um, for victory, I mean.  Now all we need is a referee, I
believe.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--Bruce Springsteen:Tunnel of Love
Current Book--Jo Clayton:The Snares of Ibex
Will herd cats for food.

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 08:49:04 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Gaolbird

Goodness!  Isn't Atilla the Pun out of Gaol _yet_?

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--Richard Marx:Don't Mean Nothing
Current Book--Jo Clayton:The Snares of Ibex
NOTE: Due to inflation, dumb looks are now $1 each.

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 09:52:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Acka: Sammy & Rex 

In the thread where the frankenstein monster did not get created, Sammy's
starting cash is A$730 (from A$20432 divided among 28 other players),
and Rex Mundi's starting cash is A$731 (21186/29 other players).

In the thread where the monster was created, the A$ tax at the end of the
cycle will make the average A$ per player about A$100-150 less, and I will
recalculate this if and when we go to that thread.

/dev/joe
Something-Harfer

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 09:55:40 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <devjoe>
Subject: Re: Acka: Gaolbird

> Goodness!  Isn't Atilla the Pun out of Gaol _yet_?

Yeah, atilla got out of Gaol on June 14th, one way of another (end of
cycle or normal release later in the day).  I forgot to mark it in the log.
The Gaoler was supposed to do something when atilla went to gaol, or when
e got out, or both, and I don't remember seeing it happen.  Maybe we should
send the Gaoler to Gaol again. :-)

/dev/joe
not the Gaoler

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:22:51 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Monster

In zee thread vere Azpiazu has already been constructed, I vould like to
announce zat I am create a new monster, which I vill name Lushrike!  I
velcome submissions uff Frankenstein Parts for zis monster!

And, of course in zee thread vere Azpiazu has not been constructed, zese
parts vill probably be added onto Azpiazu itself!  So feel free to submit
in either case!

Mad Scientist

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--Teena Marie:Lead Me On
Current Book--Jo Clayton:The Snares of Ibex
You say the spark is gone, well get an electrician  [Massive Attack]

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 12:50:04 -0800
From: "Jerome Herrman" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: TMBSG 

Microsoft Mail v3.0 (MAPI 1.0 Transport) IPM.Microsoft Mail.Note
From: Jerome Herrman
To:  'acka'
Subject:  Acka: TMBSG
Date: 1997-06-18 12:48
Priority: 3
Message ID: 96FDEA072AE6D011948C0060976638FA
Conversation ID: Acka: TMBSG

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I believe I meet all the requirements for membership.  I therefore   
request entrance into TMBSG.

Techno
With a resounding WONK, ferrets ran over stop signs.  

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 11:46:30 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: The Worst Spam (FWD) 

Ackazens,

I just recieved the most pathetic excuse for a piece of spam ever, and
thought I would forward it along.  This is truly incredible.

Mr. Fringe

>Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 06:04:07 -0700
>From: Richard Adams <[email-masked]>
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>To: [email-masked]
>Subject: (no subject)
>
>I have stumbled onto a way to earn a whole lot of money fast. It=92s
>legel, and It=92s
>cheap.  Instead of sending you the information (6 pages) uninvited I=92m
>asking if you
>would be interested in seeing it. You really should. It=92s
>Awsome!
>I can E-mail it, or send a hard copy.
>E-mail [email-masked]
>If you would like a hard copy: send a self addressed, stamped envelope
>to:
>REA
>PO Box 898
>Huntington Beach, Ca.  92648
>

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 11:52:04 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Gaolbird 

>Goodness!  Isn't Atilla the Pun out of Gaol _yet_?
>

Just realized I never posted this.  Atilla the Pun's cell is cell number #
.341765438 in the agora wing of the gaol.  The walls are made of green
cheese, and like certain planets, it is round.

I am willing to accept bribes.

Mr L. Fringe
Gaoler

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 11:53:30 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: TMBSG 

>Microsoft Mail v3.0 (MAPI 1.0 Transport) IPM.Microsoft Mail.Note
>From: Jerome Herrman
>To:  'acka'
>Subject:  Acka: TMBSG
>Date: 1997-06-18 12:48
>Priority: 3
>Message ID: 96FDEA072AE6D011948C0060976638FA
>Conversation ID: Acka: TMBSG
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>I believe I meet all the requirements for membership.  I therefore
>request entrance into TMBSG.

I supprt this.

Mr. L

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 12:02:29 -0900
From: Phil Ackley <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Internomic Proposal 

Ackazens,

There is a new internomic Proposal, Number 336, Proposed by Agora. I hereby
initiate a senate vote on it.  Due to the proposal bribery & added
complexity wihtout substantial gains (sans possibly a scam), I reccomend a
vote of NO.

Mr. Lunatic Fringe
Ambassador

- ---[ Diplomatic Sanctions ]--

WHEREAS Agora is currently engaged in hostile activites toward Rishonomic,
in the form an influx of Agoran Players in that Nomic under false
identities, with the goal of unilaterally alter Rishnomic's Ruleset,
installing one of their number as Speaker of Rishonomic, and other forms of
attack, and

WHEREAS Agora, in spite of having recently adopted legislation supporting
diplomatic negotiations, has at no time in the past attempted to settle any
perceived dispute with Rishonomic according to decent diplomatic rules of
conduct, but rather declared war upon Rishonomic unilaterally and without due
process, and

WHEREAS InterNomic is the only entity that has jurisdiction over the various
member Nomics, and should therefore attempt to curb such barbarous behaviour,

BE IT RESOLVED, that if at the time this Proposal is adopted, Agora
recognizes RishoNomic as a Hostile Nomic for the purposes of its own
legislation, of as an Enemy Nomic for the purposes of Rule 335, or both,
Rule 215 shall be amended to read thus;

   Provisions to the contrary in this Rule notwithstanding, Agora is not a
   voting member of InterNomic. This paragraph shall be repealed from this
   Rule ten weeks after the adoption of this paragraph, or whenever Agora
   recognizes RishoNomic as a Neutral Nomic (both for the purposes of its
   own legislation, and for the purposes of Rule 335), whichever is sooner.

   The voting members of this Nomic are: Rishonomic, Ackanomic, Agora,
   Thring, Pumpkin Patch Nomic, Micronomic II, and InterNomic. The moderator
   maintains a list of non-voting members.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a Rule shall be enacted reading thus;

   A member Nomic shall be prohibited from changing its Attitude toward
   another member Nomic, making that Nomic an Enemy, unless it has, more
   than two weeks before announcing that Attitude change, posted to the
   InterNomic mailing list as well as sent to the Nomic that is to become an
   Enemy a Declaration of War, listing the reasons for such a change of
   Attitude.

   If a Call For Judgement stipulating that a member Nomic's Declaration of War
   does not list sufficient reasons for declaring another Nomic an Enemy is
   Judged TRUE, the member Nomic that unjustly Declared War shall lose all
   points it currently possesses. The Nomic upon which the Declaration of War
   was served shall not be eligible to Judge such a CFJ.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a Rule shall be enacted reading thus;

   The first member Nomic that voted FOR the InterNomic Proposal that
   enacted this Rule shall receive 3 points; immediately thereafter, this
   Rule shall repeal itself.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a Rule shall be enacted reading thus;

   All Member Nomics that voted FOR the InterNomic Proposal that enacted
   this Rule shall receive 1 point; immediately thereafter, this Rule shall
   repeal itself.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a Rule shall be enacted reading thus;

   Any Member Nomic that voted AGAINST the InterNomic Proposal that enacted
this
   Rule shall lose 1 point; immediately thereafter, this Rule shall repeal
   itself.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a Rule shall be enacted reading thus;

   If Agora has received any points upon the adoption of the InterNomic
   Proposal that enacted this Rule, it shall lose an equal number of points;
   immediately thereafter, this Rule shall repeal itself.

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:36:29 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mitchell Harding <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: New Players (breadbox, Mr. Fringe) 

>It is my duty and privlidge to introduce to you, in no particluar order,
>two new voting players in Ackanomic.  The first one is Michelle Stevens
><[email-masked]>, who has chosen Sammy as her Ackanomic name.  In
>response to the market research question she writes
>
>>Someone on the TMBG mailing list mentioned it, and included the web
>>address, and it looked interesting.
>
>And then there is Gavin Doig <[email-masked]>.  He has chosen, for his
>ackanomic name Rex Mundi.  In response to the Market Research question he
>writes:
>
>>On the They Might Be Giants mailing list.

Welcome to the game... I'm the guy that posted the message on the TMBG list.
I hope you enjoy the game...

Robert Sevin

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Date: 18 Jun 1997 16:55:06 CST/CDT
From: [email-masked]
Subject: Acka: Chorg 

I am reading the next page (5) of my Spell Book of Chorg.  It vanishes
with a faint lemon glow and a wisp of smoke.  Depsite its rather
underwhelming pyrotechnic display, I hope it lends me a good temporary
gadget.

Guy Fawkes

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:54:28 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mitchell Harding <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: TMBSG 

>>I believe I meet all the requirements for membership.  I therefore
>>request entrance into TMBSG.
>
>
>I supprt this.
>
>Mr. L

It's got my full support.

Robert Sevin

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 16:06:13 -0600 (MDT)
From: Aaron Humphrey <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Treasure Again

Having buried the Exquisite Dead Guy, and finished the Tagline
Attribution Quiz, I am now burying the Hubert Feathers and the Five
Hundred Misplaced Ackadollars--just cause I got another treasure map
idea.  I am revealing the following portion of the map:

9D2FAEE4F353B636932019656968F69FE17EB295D007
A68FAEE67C947AC3E5E6DADFBFE089582EDC8E85F127
36BDB4B3D8BBF30EAECA958602ED481195E25D2786C9

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.terranet.ab.ca/~aaron/)
Song In My Head--Wham!:Edge of Heaven
Current Book--Jo Clayton:The Snares of Ibex
Please eat up quickly once the package is opened by you.  --AjD

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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 01:45:41 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: (votes and props) the hours I wasn't on Vacation... (fwd)

Approx. 10 days ago, I retruned from Vacation for a little while and done
some voting and proposing, all of which has been ignored by the bot. I
don't know if my votes affect the outcome of any proposals, but they may
affect scores, specifically - my score.

Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 00:18:52 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
To: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: (votes and props) the hours I wasn't on Vacation...

and the bot thought I was

Hi Mohammed, below is the sequence of events. Note that proposals and
votes were sent while I was not on Vacation. The bot returned them to me
claiming that I was on Vacation. Please distribute the proposals and count
the votes.

TIA

Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 11:51:13 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
To: Ackanomic <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: Returning from Vacation

I am hereby returning from Vacation

Niccolo Flychuck

- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 11:51:38 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
To: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: acrobot

#vote 2035 y

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Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 00:59:07 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
To: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: acrobot

#submit proposal Fix Them Otzma Cards

This is a Modest proposal.

In R1240.1 "Definition of Otzma Cards" Ammend section III subsection 5 to
read in full:

"
The maximum number of Otzma Cards that the RuneMaker may create on an
Otzma-Day is equal to the largest integer equal to or greater
     than (LSAP-1)/2. If LSAP is equal to or greater than 10, then the
RuneMaker must create at least 1 Otzma Card, provided that the number of
     Cards created does not bring the total number of Cards in existence
over 100. If no Otzma Cards types are defined, or if the restriction on
the types which are defined make it illegal to create Cards of that type,
then the RuneMaker does not create any Otzma Cards, instead e posts a
message to the effect that it's too bad e can't create any Otzma Cards. 
"

- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 00:59:44 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
To: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: acrobot

#current

- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 01:07:54 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
To: Jason Orendorff <[email-masked]>
Subject: acrobot

#vote 2038 y
#vote 2039 y
#vote 2041 y
#vote 2042 y
#vote 2043 n
#vote 2044 y
#vote 2045 y
#vote 2046 y
#vote 2047 n
#vote 2048 y
#vote 2049 n
#vote 2050 y
#vote 2051 y
#vote 2052 y
#vote 2053 n
#vote 2054 y

- ---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 01:35:00 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
To: Ackanomic <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka : Vacation

I am going on Vacation. My expected date of return is (again ) June 18.

Niccolo Flychuck

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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 01:55:36 +0300 (EET DST)
From: Uri Bruck <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka : No Gods

I don't the much discussed Gods proposal passed (2059)

I voted against it, in the short while I was not on Vacation, and I don't
recall seeing my vote being counted ( see my previous messsage)

Niccolo Flychuck 

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 19:07:17 -0400
From: jordan james <[email-masked]>
Subject: re acka

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This is karma wondering why I haven't been added to the player list, and =
my charteuse goose egg isin't there either (I was awarded one last =
cycle)

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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 19:09:24 -0400
From: jordan james <[email-masked]>
Subject: Recall: re acka

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jordan james would like to recall the message, "re acka".
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Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 19:10:43 -0400
From: jordan james <[email-masked]>
Subject: re acka

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This is karma wondering why I haven't been added to the player list, and =
my charteuse goose egg isin't there either (I was awarded one last =
cycle)

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