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ackanomic digest        Saturday, July 18 1998        Volume 03 : Number 238

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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 00:10:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Streak

> 
> I would also like to congratulate K 2 on having succeeded, in what is
> practically one stroke, in wiping out heresy from Ackanomic.  (And I
> really mean that.  :-)
> 

Amusingly enough, if I hadn't fouled up my votes we would have still lost
the Witchcraft rule, but kept Black Heresy.

                                 - Vynd

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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 01:37:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: K2 <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Swing

I convert one of my swingpoints into two points.

K 2

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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 10:34:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Frederic Mc Coy <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3303

On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, JT wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Aaron V. Humphrey wrote:
> >> That's odd. A typo?
> >
> >I can't remember, did we make Obfuscation a Crime?
> 
> I think we made it annoying at least.
> 
> --JT
> 

OK, OK, my little joke has run its course.  I retract proposal 3303.  I
didn't expect it to go all the way through the voting without someone
noticing, although I was hoping that if it made it past breadbox (God only
knows what he does to those proposals when we're not looking) it might at
least sneak by for a few days.  My congratulations to K 2 for actually
reading my proposal.  I'm curious, how many people out there "read" my
proposal and missed this?  I've always had the impression that, on the
longer proposals, many people read the first two paragraphs and the last
two, and leave it at that... :)

I hearby change my name to: The Wages of Sin

I'll resubmit my Geography proposal, without any tricks, I promise, in the
very near future.

                           - Still Vynd for the moment

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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 10:46:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Amery <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Wild Card Status Report!

 Hi!

 I have no idea about the current game state; dcr24 being
unconnect-to-able AFAICS.  Still, unless the message I dropped onto
the nomic-bboard has succedded I think I am on ice,

 So, I come back off vacation.

 (A message will follow later putting me back on, but I am going to
attempt to take some other actions first.)

 Wild Card, wearing a silly agenda hat.

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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 10:51:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Wild Card Status Report!

On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, Jon Amery wrote:

>  Hi!
> 
>  I have no idea about the current game state; dcr24 being
> unconnect-to-able AFAICS.  Still, unless the message I dropped onto
> the nomic-bboard has succedded I think I am on ice,
> 
Slakko is on RL vacation for a while, and so his computer is off.  There
is an alternate website, but I seem not to have apointer to it.  Sorry.  I
am sure that someone else does.  Anyone?  Anyone?

rufus

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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 11:35:33 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Gavin M. Doig" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Wild Card Status Report!

>>  Hi!
>> 
>>  I have no idea about the current game state; dcr24 being
>> unconnect-to-able AFAICS.  Still, unless the message I dropped onto
>> the nomic-bboard has succedded I think I am on ice,
>> 
>Slakko is on RL vacation for a while, and so his computer is off.  There
>is an alternate website, but I seem not to have apointer to it.  Sorry.  I
>am sure that someone else does.  Anyone?  Anyone?
>
>rufus
>
K 2 has a page at
http://home.connexus.net.au/~kii/acka/

Rex Mundi.

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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 12:54:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: JT <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3303

On Sat, 18 Jul 1998, John Frederic Mc Coy wrote:
>OK, OK, my little joke has run its course.  I retract proposal 3303.  I
>didn't expect it to go all the way through the voting without someone
>noticing, although I was hoping that if it made it past breadbox (God only
>knows what he does to those proposals when we're not looking) it might at
>least sneak by for a few days.  My congratulations to K 2 for actually
>reading my proposal.  I'm curious, how many people out there "read" my
>proposal and missed this?  I've always had the impression that, on the
>longer proposals, many people read the first two paragraphs and the last
>two, and leave it at that... :)

I hadn't actually read it by the time K2 noticed it, but I do read the
entire text of every proposal (usually, I'll admit to having skimped
occasionaly.)

>I hearby change my name to: The Wages of Sin

I ack this name change, although I'm curious why.

>I'll resubmit my Geography proposal, without any tricks, I promise, in the
>very near future.

At which point we'll read it carefully once again :)

- --JT

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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 14:20:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joseph W. DeVincentis" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: Acka: Proposal 3305

Idiotdoy wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, nomicbot wrote:
> 
> > Proposal 3305
> > A true measure of activity
> > Vynd (John McCoy)
> > 
> > Add the following line to Rule 530 The Stock Market, following the string
> > "The winning of a game of GAD or party chess":
> > 
> > A public message by a player who is, or at one point was, named Techno.
> > 
> 
> Man, I wish I was harfmeister.

Well, I am, and I declare this proposal Harfy.

/dev/joe
Harfmeister

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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 17:56:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email-masked] (Aaron V. Humphrey)
Subject: Acka: Raft

JT has found the Great Raft of Ackanomic this week.

- --
- --Alfvaen(Web page: http://www.telusplanet.net/public/alfvaen/ )
Current Album--Groucho Marx:An Evening With Groucho
Current Book--Frederik Pohl:The Annals of The Heechee
Is that a helpful waffle, or what?

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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 17:56:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sharp/Smukler <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Semi-untax

I bury all my tradeable entities as a treasure, with the following
treasure map:

This treasure shall be found when Attila the Pun says so and not
before.

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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 18:09:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Scheidt <[email-masked]>
Subject: acka: gift

Igive all my A$ to the Church of banna.

I suggest that the church destroy the Cross-posting Mania, and the D'oh!
for cash.  I can't for the life of me remember if this happens just
because I say so, or if i need approval.  

rufus

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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 18:55:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Tom Walmsley" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Acka: Return

I return from vacation, or inactivity, or whatever it's called now. I've not
had time to download all the acka mail or anything yet but I should be able
to start participating again tomorrow.

MTM.

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