On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 1:33 PM, comex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Although it is reasonable in theory for ais523 to intend to > cause fora changes in a report, e ought to have done it near the forum > section; sticking the intent in the registration history is > unreasonable.
I would think it would be more reasonable to place it at the top. Who regularly reads the forum section? > Declaring a forum inoperable due to issues that are neglible in > practice would violate the spirit and possibly the letter of R101 (v). I would dispute this point. That players have the right to use the fora does not imply that every forum has an inherent right to be usable. > Obviously there is no specific game custom as to *when* IRC messages > take effect. With emails, the standard is when the messages leaves > the sender's TDoC. Since it is possible to spam an IRC server and > have it significantly delay your messages, this is inappropriate for > IRC. Rather, the most "natural" time for an IRC message to take > effect is when it is sent by the IRC server to the other members of > the channel. Because there are multiple IRC servers, relays, etc., > this time may have a relatively low resolution (several seconds > compared to email's single-second resolution). I doubt that agoranomic.org is any less vulnerable than freenode to a DoS attack. Your conclusion seems reasonable, though. -root
