Re: DIS: Re: OFF: [Ambassador-at-Large] Foreign Relations

2013-07-16 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Steven Gardner wrote: Entreco Rule 8, Idealism: The state of Entreco is determined by what its players believe that it is. The state of the game can be changed by the consensus (including unintentionally, if a mistake is made in applying the rules,

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: Voting auctions

2013-07-16 Thread Charles Walker
On 15 Jul 2013 22:29, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: Proposal: Voting auctions (AI=2, PF=Y50) Weird: was just about to propose a similar thing, but the expiration date mechanism is more interesting than what I had in mind. FOR.

DIS: Re: BUS: Proposal: The Wisconsin Line-Item Veto

2013-07-16 Thread Charles Walker
omd wrote: [Update 2: Nerfs to 45 days and brings back the Cabinet Secretary with a different job. The wisdom of making the Cabinet Secretary a Minister in the first place will have to be left to those better versed in eighties-era TV shows.] Admitted, Cabinet Secretary should really be a

DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 3373, 3374 assigned to scshunt

2013-07-16 Thread Charles Walker
John Smith wrote: If I were a player, I'd call for reconsideration. But since I'm not, could someone else please do so? You should register.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [CotC] CFJs 3375, 3376 assigned to scshunt

2013-07-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Mon, 15 Jul 2013, omd wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 4:27 PM, Sean Hunt scsh...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote: Additionally, I would think that A person's defined privileges are assumed to exist in the absence of an explicit, binding agreement to the contrary. would be construed as

DIS: Re: BUS: some minor actions

2013-07-16 Thread Sean Hunt
On Jul 16, 2013 4:00 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: I spend 3 VCs to increase Walker's VVLOP by 3. INEFFECTIVE as all VCs were destroyed. I vote for Fool in the General Election. INEFFECTIVE, as the posting period is over. Same for the rest of the message. -scshunt

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: some minor actions

2013-07-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Sean Hunt wrote: I vote for Fool in the General Election. INEFFECTIVE, as the posting period is over. Same for the rest of the message. Huh? this was date-stamped 30 seconds before the voting period ended... did I miss something on timing here?

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: some minor actions

2013-07-16 Thread Sean Hunt
You appear to be correct by about 30 seconds. -scshunt On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Sean Hunt wrote: I vote for Fool in the General Election. INEFFECTIVE, as the posting period is over. Same for the rest of the message.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: some minor actions

2013-07-16 Thread omd
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: (Note that vps.qoid.us's clock is wrong, with me receiving both emails before the mailing lists sent them; however, the difference between the times it states is presumably constant, unless its clock was adjusted in between.)

DIS: Re: Is this thing on?

2013-07-16 Thread omd
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:56 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:51 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:49 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: Testing list upgrade. And again. Now it should work. Maybe now?

DIS: Re: Is this thing on?

2013-07-16 Thread omd
2013/7/16 omd c.ome...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:56 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:51 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:49 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: Testing list upgrade. And again. Now it should work. Maybe now?

Re: DIS: Re: Is this thing on?

2013-07-16 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 17:59 -0400, omd wrote: 2013/7/16 omd c.ome...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:56 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:51 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 5:49 PM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote: Testing list

Re: DIS: Re: Is this thing on?

2013-07-16 Thread omd
2013/7/16 omd c.ome...@gmail.com: Derp. Apologies for the spam/brief outage; I was switching Mailman to a local bzr checkout in order to properly implement Date-restamping later.

Re: DIS: Re: Is this thing on?

2013-07-16 Thread omd
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: Also, if you're upgrading the lists, then at least for a bit you're preventing me from participating in the fora :( According to scshunt's recent arguments, Rule 101 platonically prevented me from doing so! So I guess the

Re: DIS: Re: Is this thing on?

2013-07-16 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 18:05 -0400, omd wrote: On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk wrote: Also, if you're upgrading the lists, then at least for a bit you're preventing me from participating in the fora :( According to scshunt's recent arguments, Rule 101

DIS: Re: BUS: Let's make timing scams more interesting

2013-07-16 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Alex Smith wrote: More Interesting Timing Scams (AI 3, Proposal Fee Y20) Add a new paragraph to rule 478, just before its last paragraph: {{{ As an exception to the rest of this rule, no message is a public message if, during the 1-hour period that ends when that

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Let's make timing scams more interesting

2013-07-16 Thread Alex Smith
On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 23:31 +0200, Ørjan Johansen wrote: I note that this can just as well be used by the perpretators of a votebomb to allow them to make it early, and then silence any countermeasures until the end of the voting period. Yeah, thus my comments about the proper timing being

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: some minor actions

2013-07-16 Thread Kerim Aydin
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Alex Smith wrote: On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 13:11 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Sean Hunt wrote: I vote for Fool in the General Election. INEFFECTIVE, as the posting period is over. Same for the rest of the message. Huh? this was

DIS: [Distributor] Date munging is back, receive-copies-of-own-mail default changed

2013-07-16 Thread omd
Right. Mailman is really vintage code... The list should now: - rewrite date headers to be the actual time of receipt, as briefly attempted before; - include a new X-Timestamp header to provide additional precision if required; - by default, only send back copies of list mail if the subject was