Quazie wrote: >4920: AGAINST By the way, for a rule that's never been amended, rule 104 sure has changed quite a bit. I'm researching the historical progress of the ruleset, and so far I've got six versions of it, and there are at least two more to go from the dark ages of the game's early days. Admittedly the *text* of the rule hasn't changed, though. Here are the six versions I have, in chronological order:
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rule 104 (Immutable) The Speaker for the first game shall be Michael Norrish. History: Initial Immutable Rule 104, Jun. 30 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rule 104/0 (Semimutable, MI=3) First Speaker The Speaker for the first game shall be Michael Norrish. History: Initial Immutable Rule 104, Jun. 30 1993 Mutated from MI=Unanimity to MI=3 by Proposal 1482, Mar. 15 1995 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rule 104/0 (Semimutable, MI=3) First Speaker The Speaker for the first game shall be Michael Norrish. History: Initial Immutable Rule 104, Jun. 30 1993 Mutated from MI=Unanimity to MI=3 by Proposal 1482, Mar. 15 1995 Originator: Peter Suber Author: Peter Suber ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rule 104/0 (Power=3) First Speaker The Speaker for the first game shall be Michael Norrish. History: Initial Immutable Rule 104, Jun. 30 1993 Mutated from MI=Unanimity to MI=3 by Proposal 1482, Mar. 15 1995 Originator: Peter Suber Author: Peter Suber ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rule 104/0 (Power=3) First Speaker The Speaker for the first game shall be Michael Norrish. History: Initial Immutable Rule 104, Jun. 30 1993 Mutated from MI=Unanimity to MI=3 by Proposal 1482, Mar. 15 1995 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Rule 104/0 (Power=3) First Speaker The Speaker for the first game shall be Michael Norrish. [CFJ 1534: This does not mean that Michael Norrish necessarily fills the position of Speaker at the present time.] History: Initial Immutable Rule 104, Jun. 30 1993 Mutated from MI=Unanimity to MI=3 by Proposal 1482, Mar. 15 1995 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (My sources from which the above are distilled are: the initial ruleset which is on the Web in several places; my personal record of FLRs from my earlier tenure as a player; the FLR on Chuck's now-defunct website, as it was at four different times, via the Wayback Machine; and the RCS version that Michael maintained and I have so far continued. I have yet to research Vanyel's archives, which are also now defunct but have some presence in the Wayback Machine.) As you can imagine, the number of versions for rules that *have* been amended is somewhat larger. -zefram