On 6/14/07, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > If that's all you're concerned about, why not support Zefram's > proposal to require regular publication instead? > > -root Because I don't see the benefit of having more than one agreement that all players of Agora must be bound by. The rules are broad and adaptable enough that there is no need. If the best a contract can do is mimic a rule, why not just make it a rule?
As somebody else pointed out recently, one of the original purpose for Agoran Contracts IIRC was to house the list of cards, which had grown long enough that it was just taking up too much space in the ruleset. We had already created a set of subordinate documents called Cardbooks for this purpose, but they lacked the authority of the rules, and so we kept running into problems. Hence the need for a generally empowered subordinate document. IIRC, we ended up repealing cards before we ever actually got around to putting them into an AC, and so the Envoy was created mostly to justify their existence. I've always felt that the Envoy would be better off in a rule, but I suspect that if we repeal ACs now, we'll just end up bringing them back down the road. -root
