Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Grounded

[Daniel Lepage <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, April 27, 2003, at 08:19  PM, Orc In A Spacesuit wrote:

> > > The second round of craziness _was not caused my change_.
> > >
> > > It was caused by Wonko's societies prop that caused the current 
> > > loophole.
> > >
> > > My change only brought this error into view.
> >
> > I'm somewhat confused as to what prop you're referring to... the 
> > current problem is, as near as I can tell, that your most recent 
> > society proposal removed the part of r578 which defined what a 
> > charter is; although the most recent revision of that rule prior to 
> > your change was performed by me, that was over an nyear ago.
>
> Well, it seems that I may have been a bit hasty.  I maintain that my 
> prop did not cause this bug, just bring it to light.  The fact that 
> "societies can modify charters" has been around for a very, very long 
> time; the various definitons of charter have never changed that.  The 
> definition of charters doesn't change the fact that they can be 
> modified while still fitting that definition.
>
> So, no, Wonko's prop didn't create this; it's been here for a very, 
> very long time.  Only now has the loophole been brought to light.

The point is that prior to your proposal, it was illegal to modify a 
charter to anything but 'a list of publicly visible rules'... now that 
'charter' is undefined, anything is legal.

--
Wonko

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