From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Sep 16 16:55:10 2003 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-list); Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:55:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 19zPeg-0006O4-00 for lojban-list@lojban.org; Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:54:46 -0700 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 16:54:46 -0700 To: lojban-list@lojban.org Subject: [lojban] Re: Conservative, *active* BPFK commissioners needed. Message-ID: <20030916235446.GH26715@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: lojban-list@lojban.org References: <001d01c37ca8$ca179940$103c0751@oemcomputer> <20030916232253.GF26715@digitalkingdom.org> <003001c37cac$d3ef4b80$103c0751@oemcomputer> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <003001c37cac$d3ef4b80$103c0751@oemcomputer> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i From: Robin Lee Powell X-archive-position: 6193 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-list-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-list@lojban.org X-list: lojban-list On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 12:46:53AM +0100, And Rosta wrote: > Robin: > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 12:18:02AM +0100, And Rosta wrote: > > > but, as you say, he does seem to be overstating the amount of > > > conservatism required. But the fact is that the design of the > > > BF relies on a reasonable amount of participation from 'both > > > camps' but the change-averse camp has been rather silent. If > > > the BF were constitutionally able to start making resolutions > > > today, > > > > I'm sorry, umm, who says we're not able to do so, exactly? > > I don't know. Are we able to? I never got my head round the -- to > me -- complicated rules governing the BF. I defer to your > judgement here, since you have more of an aptitude for > understanding these things. I find the BPFK rules to be overcomplicated in the extreme, actually, and told Nick so at the very beginning. I am not aware of any aspect of them, however, that prevents a commissioner from making proposals once they've reviewed existing usage. -Robin -- Me: http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** I'm a *male* Robin. "but I'm not stupid and people are not stupid who think samely with me" -- from an actual, real, non-spam mail sent to webmaster@lojban.org http://www.lojban.org/ *** .i cimo'o prali .ui