Re: [EM] Request re. Acronym Use on this list

2013-01-21 Thread robert bristow-johnson
On 1/21/13 9:31 AM, Kathy Dopp wrote: I do not spend enough time following this subject to memorize all the acronyms. Could posters to this list please make your emails comprehensible to someone like myself by spelling out the words comprising the acronym when it is first used in each and every

Re: [EM] Request re. Acronym Use on this list

2013-01-21 Thread Juho Laatu
EM's own web site is also a good source of definitions for abbreviations that are often used in the EM discussions. (http://wiki.electorama.com/wiki/Special:AllPages) But in general I too recommend writers to open all abbreviations that are not obvious to all. There is no point in making the

Re: [EM] Oops! Squeeze-effect.

2013-01-21 Thread Raph Frank
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Michael Ossipoff email9648...@gmail.com wrote: Elimination would start at the extremes. Transfers would be sent inward, until the candidates adjacent to the CW would have collected all of those inward-transferred votes, enough to eliminate the CW. It seems more

Re: [EM] Oops! Squeeze-effect.

2013-01-21 Thread Michael Ossipoff
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Raph Frank raph...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Michael Ossipoff email9648...@gmail.com wrote: Elimination would start at the extremes. Transfers would be sent inward, until the candidates adjacent to the CW would have collected all of

[EM] Responsible discussion. Resonance.

2013-01-21 Thread Michael Ossipoff
Richard says: To Michael Ossipoff: If you don't want to get hurt, then don't attack. [endquote] Excuse me? :-) Did I complain that I'd gotten hurt? I've been around Internet-abusers for a while. As I've mentioned before, it was I who first suggested the formation of the Single-Winner