Italy wrote:
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
I just noticed this in R478:
The Registrar may change the publicity of a forum without
objection as long as:
(a) e sends eir announcement of intent to that forum; and
The problem being, if you're trying to make a non-public forum public,
you can't send an "announcement" to it - because what you send is not
an "announcement" until it's a public forum!
Thoughts?
Potential resolutions: the Registrar has "sent eir announcement to
that forum" as long as e has sent a *copy* of it thereto; or the word
"announcement" here is used in its ordinary language sense.
Gratuitous observation: the fact that the text of the rules takes
precedence over common sense can, at times, produce inconvenient
results.
In particular, if the new forum accepts e-mails, then "sent a copy" can
consist of sending one message with both the existing PFs and the new
forum as recipients.
Also, if all players are subscribed to the new forum and the message is
clearly labeled as an announcement, then it counts as public. (Also
also, self-ratification of the Registrar's report can paper over the
issue.)
