2009/6/14 Benjamin Caplan <celestialcognit...@gmail.com>: > Gratuitous: contracts, including pledges, generally don't require public > messages. It's possible to make a pledge to a-d, or by private email. If > G.'s intent was to make a pledge immediately, then that's probably what > happened. > > Or does that not work anymore now that pledges are always public contracts?
A contract cannot become a public contract unless its text and list of parties are simultaneously published. Whether it can start out as a public contract is debatable. I agree to the following: {This is a public contract and a pledge known as ä, which terminates 24 hours from the time of its publication. Anyone can act on my behalf to CFJ on the following statement: "Within the past 24 hours, Warrigal created a pledge known as ä."} --Warrigal