| Gavin Doig on 17 Apr 2002 17:27:48 -0000 |
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| RE: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Proosal: Do your best to change the subject. |
>>> <proosal> >>> <title>Do your best to change the subject.</title> >>> <body> >>> Repeal rule 358. [[Never been used, and you can do it anyway.]] >>> </body> >>> </proosal> >>> >>> uin. >>> -- >> >> "Can do it anyway" isn't quite the issue. Rule 18 talks about things not >> prohibited or regulated. Rule 358 regulates things. One could make the >> argument that since a method of declaring proposal dependence is mentioned in >> this rule, any other attempt to make a proposal dependent on another is >> invalid. >> >> Glotmorf >> >> > > One could make that argument, but one would be wrong. Perhaps a decent > argument could be made that it was illegal to make a proposal "dependent" on > another proposal except in the manner specified in the rule, but nothing > stops one from doing almost exactly the same thing and simply calling it > something different. > What Wonko said. There's already been a CFJ on this kind of thing, having to do with standard delimiters. uin. -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup