Murphy wrote: > Rule 478 has only defined "by announcement" since February 2003, when > it was quietly introduced as a side effect of Proposal 4456 (which > introduced Switches for the first time, and defined one for fora).
Historical note: This was a result of Maud's concerns expressed in CFJ 1444, 1450, - wasn't that quiet in Discussion, but I didn't know it was the first time it was defined. > I'm just playing devil's advocate a bit. Very much worth doing when a judgement touches on a long-standing but unwritten tradition. -Goethe
