On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Alex Smith <callforjudgem...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On an unrelated note, my primary computer's power supply shorted out and > caught fire a few days ago, meaning that I have only minimal use of it over > the next couple of weeks until a replacement can be shipped (i.e. until the > batteries run out). This means that my nomic-playing is confined to > public-access and borrowed computers; which indirectly means that my mail > access is likely to be confined to via Yahoo! (The bham.ac.uk address is > nowadays forwarded to a different address; arguably, all the emails I send > via it have faked headers, but the SMTP server I use doesn't seem to mind, > and it belongs to the domain in question and authenticates me.) Although I > can send plaintext emails via Yahoo! on my main computer, that's via an > external program, and I can't easily do that on other people's computers. As > a result, it may be hard for me to compose reports in plaintext, as required > by the rules. > > What should I do instead? Resign as Referee and publish unofficial reports > until the computer problems are fixed?
I would make your reports as close to plaintext as possible (you could argue that HTML with no formatting *is* plaintext) and ask for a DISCHARGE if someone complains. —Not-Really-A-Lawyer Tanner L. Swett
