RE: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Proposal limiting jurisdic tion of rules:

[Daniel Chapman <Daniel.Chapman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Example one:
the banker is required to do all the accounting for the bank.
He probably
1 reads all the mail
2 makes the accounting on a spare piece of paper with a pencil (of 
he uses some sort of computer program or whatever)
3 then he posts a message to the list with the results so that the 
players can read it.
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Yes, but the banker is required to post a message to the list.  We're not
requiring him to write the results on paper (he may use Access or some other
desktop database to handle it, or a perl program).  We also don't require
that he use any particular program.  We require the output, but not the
process.  We can specify a penalty for being wrong, so that it is in his
best interest to use some sort of mechanism.  But, if we find a banker that
is a human calculator and can figure it out with perfect memory, then we're
not requiring him to do anything at all outside of this rule.

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Example two
Joel is requred by rule 350/0 to perform a series of  actions:
1 He must Randall
2 He must make a photograph of himself Randalling
3 He must post the result of this action on a public place where all 
the players can see it

Both these examples feature actions directed by the rules and 
made outside of a public forum. the only difference is that rule 
350/0 specifies the instrument to be used to record the process  
wheras the banker can use whatever he feels like to do his task

Sorry if my english is so bad today. :)
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Rule 350/0 requires that Joel must Randall.  Now, if 350/0 would require
ONLY that he must post new pictures of himself Randalling, it would be legal
under this rule.  Of course, since Rule 350/0 predates my proposal, it will
override my proposed rule anyhow.