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======================================================================
CFJ 1145
The changes to the scoring Rule announced in message 740 in the
egroups archive of agora-official are to be used for the current
round which began June 1, 1999.
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Called by: Lee
Judge: Crito
Judgement: FALSE
Judge selection:
Eligible: Crito, elJefe, ELysion, harvel, Kolja, Michael,
Morendil, Murphy, Peekee, Vlad, Wes
Not eligible:
Caller: Lee
Barred: -
Had their turn: Beefurabi, Blob, Chuck
Already served: -
Defaulted: -
By request: -
On Hold: -
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History:
Called by Lee: 02 Jul 1999 15:18:19 -0700
Assigned to Crito: 02 Jul 1999 16:51:30 -0700
Judged FALSE by Crito: 09 Jul 1999 13:06:05 -0400
Judgement Distributed: As of this message
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Caller's Arguments:
<none>
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Evidence:
Relevant dates in header of message 740 as sent by Vlad:
From [email protected] Tue May 25 04:22:31 1999
Received: (from majordom-@localhost)
by gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA09230
for agora-official-list; Tue, 25 May 1999 11:19:18 GMT
Rule 1878:
"Once per Round, no more than two weeks and no less than one week
before the end of the Round, the Scorekeepor may act to change
the Scoring Rule Without 3 Objections. The Scorekeepor may only
propose changes to the basis of Scoring, otherwise the Action
automatically fails. If the action takes effect, the Scoring
Rule is changed appropriately at the beginning of the next
Round."
Rule 1875:
"The Grand Agoran Tournament consists of a series of Rounds.
These Rounds begin on the First of March, June, September, and
October of each year, and last for three months."
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Judge's Arguments:
When I first looked at this CFJ, I thought the outcome would
depend upon the interpretation of when the announcement was
actually made in the PF - an interesting and important issue.
Unfortunately, the statement turns out to be trivially false
due to failure of Vlad to conform to the Rules for changing
Scoring. Note that R1875 requires the Scorekeepor to post
an intention to change scoring "no less than one week" before
the beginning of the next round. R1875 specifies that the
relevant Round began on June 1. Without further specification,
it must be assumed that this means at 00:00:00 GMT on June 1. One
week prior to this is 00:00:00 GMT on May 25. The header
in Vlad's original message indicates that e attempted to post
eir announcement 11 hours, 19 minutes and 18 seconds too late.
As to the more interesting issue, it is this Judge's opinion that
the CFJ should have been judged false even if Vlad's original
message was sent prior to May 25 00:00:00 GMT. Although, IIRC,
there is strong game custom that a message is considered posted
to the PF when it "enters the technical domain" of the PF, the
more recent Without Objection Rules put pressure on us to re-examine
this custom. Common sense and the best interests of the game now,
IMO, dictate that a message should not be considered sent to the
PF until such time as the message is routed to the subscribers of
the PF list. It would not be appropriate for the entire Agoran
community to be deprived of the ability to Object within the
required time period because of technical difficulties, negligence,
or malfeasance on the part of a PF list administrator.
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