Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] less judges

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, March 31, 2003, at 06:17  PM, bd wrote:

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> On Monday 31 March 2003 05:53 pm, Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:
> > And since we're talking about the ruling, I would love to hear any 
> > analysis
> > on part of anyone else as to why it would be true.  As far as I know, 
> > I've
> > disproved every iota of evidence saying it's true, while providing 
> > plenty
> > saying it's false.
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> spoon-discuss is sent publicly, even though it isn't a public forum.
> spoon-business is both public and a public forum. The rule says they 
> it's
> legal to privately send them to the administrator, not that it's legal 
> to
> send them *through a private forum* to the administrator. QED.

To do something privately does not exclude all other people knowing it. 
If it did, as you seem to think, then Dave could nullify anyone's votes 
simply by announcing them to somebody else. It wouldn't even need to be 
a player - Dave could go get drunk and rowdy and get arrested, and 
mumble what you voted to the cops, and *poof*, there would go your 
votes. Fortunately, that's not the case.
	By sending a message to spoon-discuss, a player ensures that eir votes 
will leave them and arrive in Dave's inbox. This is a private 
communication. The fact that the votes were also privately communicated 
to each other player does not negate this, nor does the fact that the 
votes were then posted for public review on the mailing list site; the 
fact remains that Dave got an email which was sent by a player 
specifically to em containing the correct votes.
	Thus, even sending them to Spoon-Business would count as sending them 
privately to Dave, as e would be sent, privately, a copy; even finding 
some other mailing list which Dave subscribes to and posting to that 
would be legal (of course, if Dave denied that e'd ever gotten it, we'd 
have no way of proving you sent them).
	I thought we had settled this already, almost a year ago, but I guess 
I was wrong.

--
Wonko

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