Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We play on the internet after all

2007-09-12 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On 9/11/07, Ed Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wooble wrote: On 9/11/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only textual file format that is reliably legible is text/plain with strict ASCII. We have done very well by keeping our game documents in this format. I'd favour legislation

DIS: Re: BUS: We play on the internet after all

2007-09-12 Thread Ian Kelly
On 9/12/07, Peekee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I am not a player then I register as a player. (Do such conditionals work?) Traditionally no, apart from conditional votes, which are explicitly legislated. However, it is customary to allow it in cases such as this where the resulting game state

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We play on the internet after all

2007-09-12 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: On 9/12/07, Peekee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I am not a player then I register as a player. (Do such conditionals work?) Traditionally no, apart from conditional votes, which are explicitly legislated. However, it is customary to allow it in cases such as this where the

DIS: Re: BUS: We play on the internet after all

2007-09-11 Thread Roger Hicks
On 9/11/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peekee wrote: I make the following CFJ: Peekee is a player. Gratuitous arguments: CFJ 1580 is a useful precedent here: it ruled that players cannot be expected to decode base64 on their own, so a message relying on such decoding might be

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We play on the internet after all

2007-09-11 Thread Peekee
Well-formed or not, the message rendered perfectly for me (albeit in Gmail, which is probably to be expected). If google says it is correct then it is correct. -- Peekee

DIS: Re: BUS: We play on the internet after all

2007-09-11 Thread Kerim Aydin
root wrote: Well-formed or not, the message rendered perfectly for me (albeit in Gmail, which is probably to be expected). Should the archives have precedential status, even if not official? Read it through:

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We play on the internet after all

2007-09-11 Thread Ian Kelly
On 9/11/07, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Should the archives have precedential status, even if not official? Read it through: http://www.agoranomic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/private/agora-business/2007-September/007448.html If it can't be read from the archives, should that tell that it is

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We play on the internet after all

2007-09-11 Thread Roger Hicks
On 9/11/07, Ian Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/11/07, Kerim Aydin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even in the archives, it is obviously HTML, and it is an easy task to copy and paste the message into an HTML file and view it. -root Should understanding HTML be a prerequisite to play Agora?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We play on the internet after all

2007-09-11 Thread Zefram
Ian Kelly wrote: Even in the archives, it is obviously HTML, and it is an easy task to copy and paste the message into an HTML file and view it. That's where CFJ 1580 comes in. The message there was obviously base64, so decoding it required a similar amount of effort to the situation here. The

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We play on the internet after all

2007-09-11 Thread Geoffrey Spear
On 9/11/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only textual file format that is reliably legible is text/plain with strict ASCII. We have done very well by keeping our game documents in this format. I'd favour legislation requiring it. I'd definitely support that. I can't think of a

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We play on the internet after all

2007-09-11 Thread Zefram
Geoffrey Spear wrote: I can't think of a situation where someone capable of communicating by email in English would *need* to communicate in anything but plain ASCII text. There is no such need. Where non-ASCII characters would otherwise be natural, there are substitutes of varying levels of

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: We play on the internet after all

2007-09-11 Thread Ed Murphy
Wooble wrote: On 9/11/07, Zefram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only textual file format that is reliably legible is text/plain with strict ASCII. We have done very well by keeping our game documents in this format. I'd favour legislation requiring it. I'd definitely support that. I can't