> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 19:59:16 +1300 > From: Craig Carey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Notes on total withholding over nonexistent withheld Schulze Clones test > > Communication from the owner of the 'Politicians And Polytopes' > mailing list. > > I have 'banned' you from the Politicians and Polytopes mailing > list. That means that outgoing e-mail to you will be blocked. > If that is inconvenient then I suppose I might end the banning. > You'd need to write to me (privately) to state that view. > But incoming posted messages would then be moderated (not > blocked since I could then miss out on interesting comments). > > With the Single Transferable Vote mailing list, it won't please > me if you fail to absorb corrective statements that follow > your comments. I won't take a chance and I will moderate you > at the STV mailing list (i.e. your single address that is known > to me). Other members don't want to write on polytopes and it > is burdensome to their thinking while writing, to expect you > to remain with the view of the document that they may > reply to. I consider if progress could be slowed by such > an action. I assume that knowledge of members might not be > reduced. However if you are discouraged by my moderating then > I could be wrong now. Apologies for that. > > I have not seen a defence of your Independence from Clones > rule. Of course the method is trashy and hard to defend. I > was wanting to get that corrected. A meta rule of never > building up a good theory on a single totally false detail > was getting implicitly disputed with, i.e. rejected. > > It certainly can be the case that rules could affect the > lives of politicians. Presumably so long as they read my > writings, they would reject the rules of everyone else > including the precise rules of 100% of the EM List members. > > Obviously there is not much of importance in this message. > > You had some wording but it didn't have a perfectly present > meaning. > > Despite this message I still hope for a really lucid > statement on what happened to the mathematically usable > definition of you published Independence from Clones rule. > > It can test methods and be of a reality that allows a > single wrong point in the space of ballot paper ratios, > to alter the win-lose state of the method (i.e. polytope(s)) > that are being tested. > > This is just an administrative message. A little wordy. > I have an idea of a space lock and I am consigning you > out to free empty space. SPACE - where there is nothing, > but have no premises really stops the use of reasoning. > Hiding it by summarizing occurs too late in time. You write > in a historians style and presumably they are really alert > to discrepancies in the timing of events. > > Craig Carey > New Zealand
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