On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Ed Murphy wrote: > Italy wrote: > > 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. > > In particular, if the new forum accepts e-mails, then "sent a copy" can > consist of sending one message with both the existing PFs and the new > forum as recipients.
I thought of this, but realized it implied that the "copy" could be sent after the fact, even long after the fact! Maybe not a desirable interpretation. > Also, if all players are subscribed to the new forum and the message is > clearly labeled as an announcement, then it counts as public. (Also > also, self-ratification of the Registrar's report can paper over the > issue.) As long as the forum manager is willing to confirm everyone's subscription. I also agree that self-ratification has papered over any previous issues, I was thinking in the context of "if/when we move agoranomic" (I don't know if the Rule had this form the last time we added a PF). -G.
