On Wed, 4 Oct 2017, Alex Smith wrote: > On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 20:39 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > > Would it make o's just-now forgery (Jan 1 2017) instantly self-ratify? > > (and thus self-ratify not just the date but any contents that are self- > > ratifying?) > > The message still doesn't self-ratify until a week after the other > players generally received it. When it does, though, it self-ratifies > the fact that it self-ratified on Jan 8 2017. AFAICT this doesn't lead > to an infinite regress, but it is fairly confusing.
Oh I know there's no issue now; I was meaning under Ørjan's proposed "The Date: header of an emailed public message constitutes a self-ratifying claim that the message was sent at the indicated time." (wouldn't that explicit Rules-specification of the Date being correct override any old precedent about when it was "generally received"?)