On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 21:43, ihope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I agree to the following:
>
> {This is a public contract known as "The Normish Partnership". Any
> entity CAN cause TNP to act by causing Normish (a.k.a. rootnomic,
> which, as of August 9, 2008, was a server located at 209.20.80.194 and
> will, prima facie, continue to be that server) to send an email
> message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to an Agoran public forum after
> September 9, 2008.
>
> The parties to this contract SHALL ensure that TNP obeys the rules of
> Agora completely. The parties to this contract CAN act on its behalf
> to fulfill one of its obligations. This contract can be amended with
> the consent of all parties.}
>
> I pledge to transfer 30 VP to The Normish Partnership by September 9,
> 2008, assuming it exists at that time.
>
> By the way, I believe the PerlNomic Partnership allows its parties to
> act on its behalf to take advantage of its rights. It has the right to
> deregister. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?It uses this old boilerplate: 3. The PerlNomic Partnership may incur obligations, rights, and privileges under the Rules of Agora. The Partners may act on behalf of the PerlNomic Partnership to satisfy such obligations and to exercise such rights and privileges, as permitted by this agreement. I suspect the "as permitted by this agreement" and the use of "may" rather than "can" mean that clause 3 does not actually provide a means to perform an action. And clause 4 purports the restrict the means by which the PNP can act and is probably effective in doing so: 4. The PerlNomic Partnership shall act by using the mechanisms of the PerlNomic game to send messages to the appropriate Agoran fora. This is the only mechanism by which the PerlNomic Partnership may act. [Now, it's kind-of sloppy that this doesn't use "can", but I think it's clear enough...] - woggle
