On Wed, Apr 22, 1998 at 11:17:05PM +0100, Charles Briscoe-Smith wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > > >[1] No, there won't be a meta-meta-policy, etc.. If you find an error > >or desire an exception in the meta-policy, we shoot you. :) > > Will you shoot me if I ask for an exception to the meta-meta-policy you > just defined (namely "If you find an error or desire an exception in > the meta-policy, we shoot you")? Do we need policy about this? > > Did you intend that meta-meta-policy to apply if I merely -desire- > an exception, or do I have to -state- that desire? > > And finally, is it just me, or does none of this square with > the meta-meta-meta-policy you just stated, "No, there won't be a > meta-meta-policy"? Doesn't your next sentence point to a need for an > exception to this meta-meta-meta-policy? What we -really- need is a > meta-meta-meta-meta-policy to clear up this frightfully unclear situation > once and for all.
I second this. But I want to go even further. You will soon realize that you need an infinite (but countable) number of meta-meta-meta-...-meta-policies, and you won't even have enough time to write down the first hundreds. I hereby propose an "Aleph-zero-policy", that controls how meta-meta-...-meta-policies are handled. Uh, did I mention the Aleph-one-policy" ? Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no Egyptian god." Debian GNU/Linux finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann http://www.debian.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
