George Woltman wrote:
>
> Hi Nico,
>
> At 11:05 AM 10/13/98 CEST, Nico Sterk wrote:
> >I would like to create a new really competitive team for GIMPS all
> >across the Internet.
>
> You are more than welcome to do so. Perhaps the mailing list is
> a good place to see if there is interest in forming a variety of
> teams that a new (or existing) user could join.
...
> I don't think many will join a "Team Nico Sterk".
Although I for one would not object to joining "Team Nicky" provided
we could make membership exclusive to those with NIK in their names
somewhere -- except if I had to make a loyalty decision between
Team Nicky and Team Midwest or Team Great Plains I would have to compare
the various benefits -- eyestrain caused by the ugliness of the
respective official banner colours, airfare to the huddles, et cetera
> I don't think there is anything confidential to protect. The only danger
> I see is malicious unreserving of exponents. I, as a Team USA miscreant,
> go to Scott's web pages and unreserve all of Team Europe's exponents...
This reminds me of inter-party warfare in Agora Nomic
(http://www.tipjar.com/nomic.html is as good a starting place
as any if you don't know about Nomic, since it is a Nomic Ring site.)
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