On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Alex Smith wrote: > In this case I'm using the courts in an attempt to glean > information about the contract in question. The criminal case is not > intended to be an attack on you (sorry if you took it that way), and was > not meant to be a punishment or anything;
Way back in 2001, part of the reason we wrote the UNDEAD the way we did was as a challenge: could a conspiracy make something secret (including its members), but still make it a legal part of the gamestate, and legally protect the secret from other players who were determined to find out about it? The challenge was interesting enough to create that retroactive self-replication (it was created in response to the attacks) and we're still a wee bit proud of that. As your post shows, the challenge has once again been raised, so the UNDEAD is once again fulfilling (part of) its purpose. I am therefore happy from your email that you take in in the same spirit, while I intend to continue to do what I can to make it a challenge If I step over the line in doing so a criminal case is certainly appropriate; but at the same time I don't want to be subject to the parade of "nuisance" suits. Nothing in the above should imply that the UNDEAD if it exists doesn't have more direct, possibly nefarious *reasons* to keep things secret. I couldn't possibly comment. -Goethe
