On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 08:36 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 7:19 AM, ais523 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 20:57 -0500, Dvorak Herring wrote: > >> I agree to the Bayes contract if I can. > >> > > This fails, the contract has no mechanism for doing so. > > You forget R2198: > > If a contract does not purport to regulate becoming a party to > it, than any person CAN become a party to it by announcement. > Wow, I didn't realise that rule existed. Game custom certainly seems to go against it (all the contracts made recently that were intended to allow arbitrary persons to join have explicitly allowed that, I think).
Does this open up a scam where you can get rid of any pledge with the help of a friend, by having the friend join the pledge and then amending it with eir consent to create a get-out clause? -- ais523
