DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 6696-6707

2010-04-16 Thread Ed Murphy
Wooble wrote: >> 6696 1 2.0 coppro Purple WTF does this even do? > AGAINST Ineffective if you're not a player.

DIS: Re: BAK: Regarding CFJ 2776

2010-04-16 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 08:06 -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: > spear Nothing massively suspicious in the headers of either of Murphy's recent messages to BAK, although in the message to tue, I found this, which is more curious than suspicious: X-CanIt-Geo: ip=71.74.56.125; country=US; region=OH; city=Reyn

DIS: Proto-proto: Scam Day

2010-04-16 Thread comex
(sent this before but it got caught in the spam filter) The entire day of April 1, UTC, of each year is known as Scam Day. During Scam Day, the following definitions of capitalized words are used instead of those prescribed by other rules: - MUST NOT, MAY NOT, SHALL

Re: DIS: Proto-proto: Scam Day

2010-04-16 Thread Roger Hicks
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 13:28, comex wrote: >      Players are encouraged (in the ordinary-language sense) to take >      advantage of these definitions to carry out scams which would be >      illegal or impossible on other days.  However, scams SHOULD NOT >      be carried out which are detrimen

Re: DIS: Proto-proto: Scam Day

2010-04-16 Thread comex
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:33 PM, Roger Hicks wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 13:28, comex wrote: >>      Players are encouraged (in the ordinary-language sense) to take >>      advantage of these definitions to carry out scams which would be >>      illegal or impossible on other days.  However,

Re: DIS: Proto-proto: Scam Day

2010-04-16 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 15:28 -0400, comex wrote: > (sent this before but it got caught in the spam filter) > > The entire day of April 1, UTC, of each year is known as Scam > Day. > > During Scam Day, the following definitions of capitalized words > are used instead of thos

Re: DIS: Proto-proto: Scam Day

2010-04-16 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:49 PM, ais523 wrote: >>  However, scams SHOULD NOT >>       be carried out which are detrimental to the game as a whole. > > This last sentence is broken, because it applies even on days other than > April 1. (A similar scam was used to win BlogNomic recently.) You're un

Re: DIS: Proto-proto: Scam Day

2010-04-16 Thread ais523
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 16:04 -0400, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 3:49 PM, ais523 wrote: > >> However, scams SHOULD NOT > >> be carried out which are detrimental to the game as a whole. > > > > This last sentence is broken, because it applies even on days other than > > Apr

Re: DIS: Proto-proto: Scam Day

2010-04-16 Thread comex
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:15 PM, ais523 wrote: >> You're uncomfortable with the rules suggesting that you not destroy >> the game even if it's not April 1? > > Although it's a laudable restriction, I'm uncomfortable with what looks > like an attempt to slip in a rule in a mostly unrelated proposal

Re: DIS: Re: BAK: Regarding CFJ 2776

2010-04-16 Thread Sean Hunt
On 04/16/2010 09:14 AM, ais523 wrote: X-CanIt-Geo: ip=209.85.222.191; country=US; region=CA; city=Mountain View; postalcode=94043; latitude=37.4192; longitude=-122.0574; metrocode=807; areacode=650; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.4192,-122.0574&z=6 I note that the latitude and longitude here a