Re: DIS: Re: BUS: [proposal] Publish/Announce definition fix

2019-07-19 Thread Jason Cobb
It's probably not a bad idea, but I think there's a lot of judicial 
precedent on what exactly counts for messages, and I wouldn't want to 
accidentally nuke that. Although I'm sure you know a lot more about that 
than I do, so I'd love help (from anyone) codifying the precedent here.


Jason Cobb

On 7/20/19 12:14 AM, Nicholas Evans wrote:

 A person "publishes" or "announces" something by sending a public
 message whose body contains that thing.


DIS: Re: BUS: [proposal] Publish/Announce definition fix

2019-07-19 Thread Nicholas Evans
Might be nice to add "unambiguously contains" while we're at it.

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 11:10 PM Jason Cobb  wrote:

> I submit the following proposal:
>
>
> Title: No, you didn't publish that
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> Author: Jason Cobb
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> AI: 3
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> Text:
>
> {
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> Amend Rule 478 ("Fora") by replacing the text
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> A person "publishes" or "announces" something by sending a public
> message.
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> with the text
>
> A person "publishes" or "announces" something by sending a public
> message whose body contains that thing.
>
> }
>
>
> --
> Jason Cobb
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>