spoon-business: CFJ

["Jonathan Van Matre" <JVanMatre@xxxxxxxx>]

Title: mhH.

Statement:  The phrase "the rules" is not a uniquely identifying name.  Phrases in common usage in the ruleset, such as "the rules", "a proposal", or "the public forum", are already in usage in a uniquely identifying manner; players may not choose such phrases as eir player names.

 

Analysis:  No other entity has this name, but within the context of linguistic usage in the game, it cannot be regarded as uniquely identifying.   Or, as an alternate way of looking at it, "the rules", "the current proposals", "the public forum" and other such constructs may be regarded as de facto game entities, even though they haven't been explicitly declared as such.

 

Naming myself as plaintiff, and as defendant, the player known as uniquely identifying names when I joined this game.

-----Original Message-----
From: Doig, Gavin [mailto:GDoig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 10:33 AM
To: spoon-business@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: spoon-business: mhH.

I change my name to "the rules".

I apologise to the admin for generating additional overhead, and would give him some points, only he's still not a player (which fact causes me some degree of accountability-related angst, but never mind).

uin.