On 10/12/2019 2:21 PM, Jason Cobb wrote:
> On 10/12/19 5:17 PM, Edward Murphy wrote:
>> and cause my zombie to endorse me on each.
>
> This is INEFFECTIVE. Gaelan used to be your zombie, but e has flipped eir
> Master to emself.
For future reference, naming your zombie in the message is required, no
references like "my zombie" allowed (CFJ 3663). OTOH, as came up in an
earlier conversation this week, CFJ 3663 also found that "I cause" works
fine as an "I act on behalf" synonym:
Judgement excerpt:
> ...in R2466(Acting on Behalf):
> the agent must, in the message in which the
> action is performed, uniquely identify the principal and that the
> action is being taken on behalf of that person.
>
> The key phrase here is "in the message...uniquely identify". For actions
> in general, we have a weaker standard, we've allowed "specify" in R478
> to include outside references (e.g. to other Reports or messages).
> However, "in the same message uniquely identify" is a stronger standard.
> Specifying "each zombie I own" or even "my zombie" does not IN THE SAME
> MESSAGE identify the principal - instead it refers to outside
> information. The only Rules-supported way to uniquely identify a person
> in a standalone message is in R2139: using "information sufficient to
> identify" the principal, which by long-standing tradition is the person's
> name or nickname (and yes, variant spellings count as long as there's no
> confusion).
>
> Therefore, for ANY zombie action, the zombie's name must appear explicitly
> in the action message, AND a clear indication that it's an act-on-behalf
> action (via verbs like "I act on behalf" or "I make" or "I cause" or "I
> have" or explicitly indicating that the explicitly-named person is the
> agent's zombie). And importantly, "in the message" means NO substitutions
> allowed.
https://mailman.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2018-September/039201.html
-G.
