On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Ian Kelly wrote: > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Do you agree that if the message is posted before you change your mind, >> it was posted with your permission even if you change your mind later? > > Yes, but your view would seem to imply that if the message is posted > after I change my mind and even after I publicly declare my change of > mind, then it's still valid unless the contract happens to include a > clause that permits me to withdraw from it.
As I mentioned in my response to comex, I'm not sure the Rules support withdrawing an agreement to post a message once you've given it! (It should, but it's not explicitly clear). > How, without explicit contracts, would we ever > be sure that panelists were approaching the agreement with the same > understanding and thereby forming an agreement at all? We can't be. Some of the panel discussions have left it very muddy as to when an agreement has been reached (I mean among panel members, not watchers). This may be contributing to slowing down the process. Even the active panels have posted different versions of arguments without being sure who was agreeing to whose. Fortunately, there's been noone crossing the line yet of posting something whose basic substance wasn't agreed to... I think? -Goethe
