From: owner-agora-business@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au on behalf of Ed Murphy [ford@jps.net] Sent: Sat 8 May 99 12:13 AM To: Agora Business Subject: BUS: Agoran Weekly Journal THE AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL VOLUME 45, ISSUE 2 Friday edition May 7, 1999 PROPOSALS --------- Author Title Date ----------------------------------------------- harvel Patch Rule 107 4/29 G. Chaos Taxes, revisited [Prop 3857 adopted 4/26] G. Chaos Unlimited voting [Prop 3861] Murphy The Spiraling Cost of Voting [Prop 3858] Oerjan April Fool [Prop 3856 rejected 4/26] Peekee Amend rule 649 [Prop 3860] Peekee Keep a Duty to Vote [Prop 3854 adopted 4/26] Peekee The Scam? What Scam? [Prop 3859] Vlad Cleaning up the Grand [Prop 3855 rejected 4/26] Agoran Tournament PROTO-PROPOSALS --------------- Author Title Date(s) ----------------------------------------------------------- Blob An Alternative to Summary Adoption 4/26 Blob Another Alternative 4/26 harvel Lighten Assessor's Load 5/4 harvel Revised Summary Adoption 4/25 Peekee The Treasuror 4/15, 4/17, 4/29, 5/4 CALLS FOR JUDGEMENT ------------------- CFJ 1124 "Votes sent to the agora-discussion mailing list are neither [TRUE] 'sent publically' nor 'sent privately', and so are not valid when voting is Unrestricted." 4/20 Called by Blob 4/20-25 Assigned to Elysion, who Judges TRUE Caller's argument (summary): By defining the Public and Private modes of Voting, Rule 1764 defines "publically" and "privately". Messages to a-d fit neither definition. CFJ 1125 "Rule 1883 has not been repealed." [TRUE] 4/24 Called by Blob 4/26-30 Assigned to Crito, who Judges TRUE 4/30 Appealed by Steve Caller's argument (summary): "An Object Lesson" was embedded in a spam message, so did not give a "clear indication" of being a Proposal as required by Rule 1483. CFJ 1126 "In posting a message to agora-business with the subject [FALSE] 'Maximize your website's traffic!', Steve committed the Crime of Misrepresentation by listing 'janet9981@yahoo.com' as the 'From:' address." 4/30 Called by Chuck 4/30-5/2 Assigned to harvel, who Judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): Steve believed the information in question to be incorrect, the criterion of Rule 1497. Judge's refutation (summary): It is unclear that Rule 1497 applies to message headers. It is unclear that Steve sent the message in question. CFJ 1127 "In posting a message to agora-business with the subject 'Maximize your website's traffic!', Steve committed the Crime of Misrepresentation by stating, on or around lines 12-13 of the body of the message, 'If your website isn't located in the top-30 listings of these engines, chances are your site will never be seen.'" 4/30 Called by Chuck 4/30 Assigned to David Caller's argument (summary): See CFJ 1126. CFJ 1128 "In posting a message to agora-business with the subject [FALSE] 'Maximize your website's traffic!', Steve committed the Crime of Misrepresentation by stating, on or around lines 138-155 of the body of the message, 'Here's a sampling of some results we've acheived for previous clients. (These examples are for competitive keywords--not just obscure words on which no one is conducting searches.) <> 6 top-10 rankings on Infoseek for different relevant keywords <> 18 top-10 rankings across the major search engines <> 3 top-10 rankings on Alta Vista for one keyword <> 16 total *number one* rankings <> 40 top-30 rankings, spread across the different engines. <> 1 to 2 hits per week increased to 500 per day <> 45,000 hits per month grew to 108,000.'" 4/30 Called by Chuck 4/30-5/3 Assigned to Oerjan, who Judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): See CFJ 1126. Judge's refutation (summary): Steve did not present this information as correct. CFJ 1129 "In posting a message to agora-business with the subject [FALSE] 'Maximize your website's traffic!', Steve committed the Crime of Misrepresentation by stating, on or around lines 188-189 of the body of the message, '<> Call us--we'll answer any questions you may have and provide a no-cost initial consultation. (310) 859-4659'" 4/30 Called by Chuck 4/30-5/4 Assigned to Blob, who Judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): See CFJ 1126. Judge's refutation (summary): Steve did not necessarily present this information as correct, nor did e necessarily believe it was incorrect. CFJ 1130 "In posting a message to agora-business with the subject [FALSE] 'Maximize your website's traffic!', Steve committed the Crime of Misrepresentation by stating, on or around lines 250-252 of the body of the message, 'Search Engine Success Group - Call us at: (310) 859-4659'" 4/30 Called by Chuck 4/30-5/7 Assigned to Murphy, who Judges FALSE Caller's argument (summary): See CFJ 1126. Judge's refutation (summary): Steve did not believe this information was incorrect. A reasonable interpretation of the quoted text is to equate 'us' with the organization that originally authored the spam; in that context, the quoted text is likely truthful. CFJ 1131? "The message sent to the Public Forum with headers which read in part: Message-Id:<3.0.1.32.19990406101136.009bcec-@proxy.pn.beam.com.au> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:11:36 +1000 To: agora-busines-@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au From: janet998-@yahoo.com Subject: Maximize your website's traffic! was sent by Steve." 5/3 Called by Steve OFFICES ------- 5/4 Morendil is Elected Clerk of the Courts by Acclamation. OTHER ----- 4/25 Elysion completes the Probate of Macross. 4/26 Blob implements a Probate plan for the Repeal-O-Matic. 4/29 Vlad Rebels. 4/30 Steve's Power of Attorney over Kolja A. ends. 5/6 Morendil may be found guilty of Inciting to Riot. -- Ed Murphy http://rivendell.fortunecity.com/meridian/309/ "I see," said Arthur, who didn't.