On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, C-walker wrote: > By the way, the intent of "If the above quoted signature has been > nullifying all of my messages, I perform all of the actions I would > have performed..." was simply to perform the actions I may or may not > have performed in the nullified messages...
Unfortuately, you can't back-date action attempts, so if something failed and your above message then "fixed" it, the time of action would shift to this later message. It might make timing for votes etc. quite different (I think that's the recordkeeping headache ehird was talking about). I personally think you're fine as I said in last email, but you may want to drop the disclaimer :). (If you accidentally put in a falsehood in a message, you shouldn't be punished; if you put one in on purpose, the generic disclaimer wouldn't save you). In a way, every act done by announcement contains an implicit "If I CAN do this, then I do it." Except for the action of posting a message, we have no empirical proof that a person CAN do something except for whether the collective rest of us (hopefully by interpreting the rules) allow it to stand. And we generally don't punish for merely failed actions unless they contain an overt act of misleadingness (that's been the subject of quite a few debates over the years) -G.
