On 1/11/08, Kerim Aydin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If a program scanned emails for a CFJ, and when detected, automatically > took the CFJ, scanned the eligibility list, and emailed out an judge > assignment without human intervention, I don't doubt someone would craft > a CFJ to get a broken, illegal, or weird assignment mailed back, a large > number of trival CFJs assiged, or do something against the rules in a > way that screwed up the game state somehow. I'd personally try to write > a self-replicating CFJ, and I'm sure everyone else here would think of > doing the same. Hence, an insertion attack "on the Rules" if not on > the database.
Most of the trivial CFJ stuff can be patched, and I'd consider it as bad etiquette to abuse a CFJ system as it would be to spam the list wholesale. But I think you're right: eligibility is a killer! I can't parse every variation of "I become inactive" or "I deregister". Oh well... it would have been cool. Without automatic assignment, using a webform for submission would be a pointless hassle. Would make it easier for the CotC, but if I wanted to create a hassle for the Agoran people and the other candidates didn't, I doubt I would get very far. My self-nomination stands, and I can add as another point: - I will try to get stuff from Zefram's archives into the database. (I don't know how flexible the database structure is, but...) CFJ 818*, for example, makes excellent reading, but it's too old to even be in the current database's Stare Decisis. *CFJ 818: The Rules in general should be interpreted that, if the alleged Compact of the Mousetrap Organization exists, it cannot contain the Player Swann within its Jurisdiction.
