Forwarding to DIS - you sent this to me privately, presumably by mistake.
In answer to the question, that seems plausible to me.
-twg
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On Sunday, June 16, 2019 2:02 AM, Rance Bedwell <rance...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>
> R2549 says "An Auction also CANNOT be initiated unless the Auctioneer is able
> to give away each item in each of the Auction's lots."
>
> If Agora was unable to transfer the zombie ownership at the time the auction
> was initiated, does that mean the initiation failed in the first place?
>
> On Saturday, June 15, 2019, 04:49:50 AM CDT, Timon Walshe-Grey m...@timon.red
> wrote:
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> If I recall correctly, there used to be a thing in rule 2551 that meant the
> clause "if the auctioneer CAN transfer the items... at will" didn't apply if
> the auctioneer was Agora. That seems to have gotten lost somewhere along the
> line - possibly in proposal 8113, which removed a sentence but I'm not sure
> which one.
>
> -twg
>
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>
> On Saturday, June 15, 2019 5:52 AM, omd c.ome...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 10:40 PM James Cook jc...@cs.berkeley.edu wrote:
> >
> > > Ha, maybe. Here's another argument, though: Master is secured at a
> > > power threshold of 2. Rule 2551 ("Auction End") only has power 1. I
> > > doubt Rule 2551 can get around that by saying it's Agora doing it
> > > rather than R2551, but if it can, I guess that could be used as an
> > > escalation scam.
> >
> > Good catch. And it wouldn't get around that. As far as I know, Agora
> > doesn't have its Power set, so Agora wouldn't have any more right to
> > flip the switch than R2552.
> > If Agora did have its Power set, then causing Agora to act would
> > likely fall under
> >
> > 3. set or modify any other substantive aspect of an instrument
> > with power greater than its own. A "substantive" aspect of an
> > instrument is any aspect that affects the instrument's
> > operation.
> >
> >
> > ...or if not, there's a big hole in general. I think there might
> > actually be precedent regarding this, since there have been a bunch of
> > Power escalation scam attempts in the past, but I guess it's a moot
> > point in this case.
