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ackanomic digest        Thursday, May 28 1998        Volume 03 : Number 173

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 03:01:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Query (holiday type one)

On Wed, 27 May 1998, Jonathan David Amery wrote:

> On Wed, 27 May 1998, Joseph W. DeVincentis wrote:
>
> > Guy Fawkes and Hoover 2300 are on vacation, but the other four players
> > I noted as missing from the recipient list of Slakko's message were
> > not on vacation, to the best of my knowledge, so that was not a public
> > message and the Holiday did not occur.
>  
>  Ah, but it could have been BCCed to them...
> 

It wasn't.

- -- 
Duncan C. "" Richer aka
Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College
Cambridge, 1st Year PhD(Pure Maths), CUDipSoc, CUSFS, CUSTS, CURS etc
Acka - President, Web-Harfer, RuneMaker, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 05:24:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Voting on INPs (Slakko)

Here are the results to the hearings to determine how Acka votes on the
current round of INPs. As you can see, 371 and 372 came out with an
inconclusive result so this means that president Slakko needs to publicly
announce which way I should vote.

370 For
371 Tie
372 Tie
373 Against
374 For
375 For
376 For
377 For

Mr. Tambourine Man, Ambassador.

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 05:25:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Retraction

I retract proposal 3128.

MTM. 

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 08:02:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Voting on INPs (Slakko)

On Thu, 28 May 1998, Tom Walmsley wrote:

> Here are the results to the hearings to determine how Acka votes on the
> current round of INPs. As you can see, 371 and 372 came out with an
> inconclusive result so this means that president Slakko needs to publicly
> announce which way I should vote.
> 
> 370 For
> 371 Tie
> 372 Tie
> 373 Against
> 374 For
> 375 For
> 376 For
> 377 For
> 
> Mr. Tambourine Man, Ambassador.

I direct that Ackanomic shall vote AGAINST 371 and 372.

> 

- -- 
Duncan C. "" Richer aka
Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College
Cambridge, 1st Year PhD(Pure Maths), CUDipSoc, CUSFS, CUSTS, CURS etc
Acka - President, Web-Harfer, RuneMaker, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 08:32:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Duncan Richer <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Chess: Mr. Tambourine Man's turn to Play

On Thu, 28 May 1998, Frank Schmidt wrote to acka-chess:

> > Next Turn: Due 3 days after this message
> > Current Player: Mr. Tambourine Man
> 
> I think you should move R i19-i14, putting me in check,
> otherwise we're both checkmated soon.

This is clearly a private suggestion, sent to a public list.  It involves
private strategy which should have been kept private.

I am calling a Public Health Emergency against J. M. Bear for the above
message.
I am the Graduate Medical Student for this Hearing, so responses go to me.

Valid responses are:
"Yes, why just yesterday e posted a letter to eir aunt!"
and
"No, e, er, meant to do that."

Please reply privately with your responses.
Yours,
Slakko
- -- 
Duncan C. "" Richer aka
Slakko (Lost) Warner - http://dcr24.quns.cam.ac.uk/ - Queens' College
Cambridge, 1st Year PhD(Pure Maths), CUDipSoc, CUSFS, CUSTS, CURS etc
Acka - President, Web-Harfer, RuneMaker, ChessUmpire, Map-Harfer

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 11:42:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Frank Schmidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Quick Fox Treasure

I give up seeking a regular solution - that seems like Mission
Undooable... instead I try the following strings:
"The alphabet spells abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz."
"The abc spells abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz."
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz is the alphabet."
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz is the abc."

With apologies to all honest seekers (who'd that be?)

J. M. Bear

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 11:47:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (L'homme a tete de choux)
Subject: Acka: What? Who? Where? When?

Vynd:
>I also get the impression that Pandora didn't make it into that list of
>breadbox's, and presumably didn't get the email about a Holiday.

You get the right impression.

Wild Card:
> Ah, but it could have been BCCed to them...

Ah, but it wasn't.

breadbox:
>Right. The missing people are those who are subscribed to
>ackanomic-digest. I didn't send them the notice since I figured that
>the interruption of service wouldn't be long enough to disturb them.

Thought as much. Actually, you're right, it didn't disturb me, but that's the
problem -- I wanted to be disturbed (by the arrival of email, that is). Not to
worry.

Pandora

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 12:27:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Quick Fox Treasure

> I give up seeking a regular solution - that seems like Mission
> Undooable... instead I try the following strings:
> "The alphabet spells abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz."
> "The abc spells abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz."
> "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz is the alphabet."
> "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz is the abc."
> 
> With apologies to all honest seekers (who'd that be?)

It's almost definitely mission undoable to anyone for whom English is not
their first language. The best cheating type one I got was in the style of a
newspaper.

Al: "BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ".

which clearly indicates that Al said "BCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" and is a
staggering 27 letters. Not that I would accept that though (and if anyone
sends this (or something similar) to me and expects to win then they will be
publicly forced to dance naked on the town hall steps, then tarred and
feathered, then shot several times before being hanged, drawn and quartered
just for good measure). As for who the honest seekers are I've had attempts
from several people and I think (but don't quote me on this) that the best
one is from /dev/joe (surprise, surprise :-). So let this be a challenge to
everyone. Who can beat /dev/joe?!?!?

Mr. Tambourine Man.

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 14:04:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Ian K." <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: The earth is <censored?>

The results of the Witchhunt I called against Rex Mundi are as follows:

BURN THE WITCH!
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Ayla +EBS
Rex Mundi +EBS
Koxvolio +EBS +EBS
JT +EBS
ThinMan +EBS
Slakko +EBS
Pandora         (Total 14, 7 cast by EBSs)

No! E said the Earth was flat
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breadbox
Atilla the Pun
Mr Tambourine Man
K2
Hubert          (Total 5)

Rex Munid is thereby burnt, and enters the Ackonomic Afterlife from a boy
scout bonfire.

Koxvolio

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 15:57:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joel Ricker" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Actions: Special?

I hold up my Sword of Kahless and ask, "Is this trinket Special?"

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

     Joel Ricker [] [email-masked] [] ICQ# 6244364
       http://www.Geocities.com/TimesSquare/Arena/1047/
         Home of Eleusis Nomic -- Join Today!

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 18:12:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka:  rules?

Where are they?  Does anyone have a current rule set that they can mail
me, or point me to?

rufus

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 18:58:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: acka:  rules?

> Where are they?  Does anyone have a current rule set that they can mail
> me, or point me to?

breadbox said e had a copy of the rules up at
http://www.drizzle.com/~blr/allrules.txt.gz although I haven't checked that
so I can't confirm that it works. If the worst comes to the worst then I have
a copy of all the rules (including rulesuites) that are less than a week old
so if you can't get them at the file above then mail me privately and I can
send you a copy.

Mr. Tambourine Man.

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 21:02:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: T195 (rufus, Mad Sculptor)

On Sun, 24 May 1998, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:

> The Automatic Sculpture is converted into Sculpture 19(I believe, although
> the Financier and/or Trinket-Harfer should confirm this), and rufus is its
> Mad Sculptor.  And I'm not at all sure what else is in the Treasure,
> myself.

If it is not too late to do so, I offer the following description of
Sculpture 19:  "It appears to be a crowd of Ackans milling pointless
about, but it is hard to tell, since the whole works is swathed in
gingham."  

rufus

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Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 21:13:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka:

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