On Jan 31, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Ed Murphy wrote:
But the Clerk of the Courts can dismiss any excess ones, and Trial Judges can dismiss any frivolous ones, so the worst such a non-player could do is spam the database. We've weathered spam before, notably Crito's Supreme Cup Scam [1] and Steve's Spam Scam [2]. The CotC could remove the spam from the Stare Decisis without objection (R889). [1] A rule granted a win for getting the same FOR and AGAINST counts on three of your proposals in a row. Crito submitted several hundred proposals with identical text; since all votes cost currency at the time, almost all of them received 0 and 0. [2] A rule allowed players to cause proposals to be adopted withoutobjection. Then-Distributor Steve arranged for a friend to forwarda spam message to the Public Forum, intercepted it, inserted an adoption-without-objection about 200 lines down, then let it go.
For some odd reason (perhaps born of playing Agora for a few years) I laughed hard at both of these scams.
----- Benjamin Schultz KE3OM OscarMeyr
