On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 2:46 PM, Kerim Aydin <[email protected]> wrote: > I just noticed this in R478: > > The Registrar may change the publicity of a forum without > objection as long as: > > (a) e sends eir announcement of intent to that forum; and > > The problem being, if you're trying to make a non-public forum public, > you can't send an "announcement" to it - because what you send is not > an "announcement" until it's a public forum! > > Thoughts?
Potential resolutions: the Registrar has "sent eir announcement to that forum" as long as e has sent a *copy* of it thereto; or the word "announcement" here is used in its ordinary language sense. Gratuitous observation: the fact that the text of the rules takes precedence over common sense can, at times, produce inconvenient results. —Machiavelli
