On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 4:18 PM, ais523<callforjudgem...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> Of course. All of Agora depends on email to exist. Contracts depend >> on language. I agree with you that it doesn't mean that R1728 clause is >> wholly broken because nothing exists in a vacuum. > > The only places email is even mentioned in Agora's SLR are R2150 and > R1727; if email were to suddenly cease to exist, we could, as non-person > players who had been first-class once, continue playing until we could > redefine ourselves as persons by changing the rules, using an > alternative non-email forum. (Sending messages to /everyone/ might be > quite hard, but certainly plausible; and as #really-a-cow showed, fora > other than email are certainly workable. Also of note is, that when B > stole Agora's ruleset, a typo in the proposal that did so lead to there > being no public fora, but they managed to recover from that state.)
Only because Agora has an explicit escape hatch for the no-public-fora case. Continuing with all non-persons would be quite difficult, I think: it requires some reading into Rule 478 to even allow non-persons to take actions; they definitely can't perform dependent actions such as ratification; Agoran decisions cannot be initiated... Indeed, I think Agora might be irrevocably broken if email were to cease to exist. -- -c.
