Sean Hunt wrote:
I, coppro, intend this to be a public message under Agoran law.
All Agoran players, please read http://paste.debian.net/66733/
(hereafter referred to as The Paste).
I CFJ { The Paste is a public message. }
Following the recent judgement in CFJ 2777 regarding the TDoC test, I
believe that this hinges on whether or not The Paste left coppro's
domain of control upon or before sending the quoted message.
Assuming coppro does not have administrative access to paste.debian.net,
the website allows pastes to be deleted but not edited. Thus, while
coppro has the technical ability to make the message at
http://paste.debian.net/66733/ disappear, e lacks the technical ability
to change it to a different message. (Or, strictly, e has the technical
ability to change it to the message located at
http://paste.debian.net/66803/, quoted below for reference.)
The question, then, is what degree of control constitutes the normal
technical domain of control.
Certainly, the ability to affect a message only by deleting it is an
abnormally restricted degree of control; but a precedent along this line
would suggest that a public message could be sent using a website where
editing the text was possible after solving a match-three puzzle.
Conversely, a precedent that sending requires the sender to relinquish
all control would suggest that the Distributor cannot send any messages
at all via the fora.
Hail Eris!
Pavitra
Appendix: Trying to access a deleted paste at paste.debian.net yields
the following message:
> Some Error
> Some strange error has been occurred:
> Entry was not found in database
> Please contact the admin about the problem
where the word "admin" is linked to formo...@debian.org.
