From - Fri Mar 17 15:39:32 2000 Return-Path: Received: from gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au ([131.170.42.16]) by smith.mail.mindspring.net (Mindspring Mail Service) with ESMTP id sd4qhe.6ha.37kbi5o for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:23:57 -0500 (EST) Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA27289 for agora-official-list; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:13:28 GMT Received: from fw.serc.rmit.edu.au (fw-in.serc.rmit.edu.au [131.170.42.1]) by gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA27286 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:13:26 GMT Received: (from mail@localhost) by fw.serc.rmit.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.1) id EAA71996 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 2000 04:28:11 +1100 (EST) Received: from msuacad.morehead-st.edu(147.133.1.1) by fw.serc.rmit.edu.au via smap (V2.1) id xma071994; Sat, 18 Mar 00 04:27:53 +1100 Received: (from mpslon01@localhost) by msuacad.morehead-st.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) id MAA01582 for agora-official@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:12:59 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Slone Message-Id: <200003171712.MAA01582@msuacad.morehead-st.edu> Subject: OFF: CFJ 1200 Judged TRUE To: agora-official@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au (agora-official) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:12:59 EST X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 212.4] Sender: owner-agora-official@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au Precedence: bulk Reply-To: agora-discussion@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-UIDL: sd4qhe.6ha.37kbi5o ============================== CFJ 1200 ============================== The Auction for Low Oligarchs started on Monday, 06 Mar 2000 at 23:40:31 -0800 has ended. ======================================================================== Called by: Blob Judge: t Judgement: TRUE Judge selection: Eligible: Anthony, Chuck, Elysion, Murphy, Oerjan, Peekee, Sherlock, Steve, elJefe, harvel, lee, t Not eligible: Caller: Blob Barred: Palnatoke, Wes Had eir turn: Crito, Palnatoke Already served: - Defaulted: Harlequin By request: Michael On Hold: Novalis, Palnatoke Zombie: Schneidster ======================================================================== History: Called by Blob 15 Mar 2000 20:29:23 +1100 Assigned to t: 16 Mar 2000 00:53:52 -0500 Judged TRUE by t: 17 Mar 2000 13:55:24 +0200 Judgement published: As of this message ======================================================================== Caller's Arguments: Speaker Murphy started these three Auctions the date given, in a message reproduced in item (a) in the attached evidence. A summary of the bids that have appeared in the Public Forum since that time is as follows. ============= High Oligarch ============= Bidder Bid Time of Bid (GMT) Time Retracted (GMT) ------ --- ----------- -------------- Blob 1@250 Mar 13 01:11:26 harvel 1@101 Mar 9 17:26:46 Mar 11 13:00:09 Steve 1@100 Mar 9 00:32:31 Palnatoke 1@60 Mar 12 21:26:30 (**) Elysion 1@30 Mar 7 22:26:20 harvel 1@17 Mar 10 13:43:52 Mar 11 13:00:09 harvel 1@1 Mar 10 13:43:52 Mar 11 13:00:09 ================ Middle Oligarchs ================ Bidder Bid Time of Bid (GMT) Time Retracted (GMT) ------ --- ----------- -------------- Wes 1@150 Mar 15 13:38:25 (*) t 1@104 Mar 7 22:01:24 Blob 1@103 Mar 13 01:11:26 harvel 1@101 Mar 9 17:26:46 Steve 1@100 Mar 9 00:32:31 Elysion 1@80 Mar 7 22:26:20 Palnatoke 1@30 Mar 12 21:26:30 (**) harvel 1@23 Mar 10 13:43:52 harvel 1@1 Mar 10 13:43:52 ============= Low Oligarchs ============= Bidder Bid Time of Bid (GMT) Time Retracted (GMT) ------ --- ----------- -------------- Steve 1@100 Mar 9 00:32:31 Michael 1@60 Mar 7 09:55:09 Wes 1@50 Mar 15 13:38:25 (*) harvel 1@31 Mar 9 17:26:46 Palnatoke 1@10 Mar 12 21:26:30 (**) harvel 1@2 Mar 10 13:43:52 The bids marked with a (*) were submitted by Wes at the time given, but e claims that they were also previously submitted sometime on Saturday Mar 11. E has produced no evidence to back this claim, but it is possible, since the Gecko mail sever, home to the Agora mailing lists, crashed on the weekend in question, and some mail was lost. (See item (f) in the Evidence). Palnatoke claims that e submitted the bids mark (**) at the date given. To prove this, e posted a message from eir "Sent Items folder" with the given Date stamp. It is also important to note that R1887 states that: "A Bid is a message, sent to the Public Forum, announcing that the sender is bidding in that particular Auction, and the amount of eir Bid." and that: "[An] Auction ends when 72 hours have passed without a valid Bid higher than the Nth-highest Bid (at the time the Bid is made) having been made." Thus Bids are made by _sending_ messages to the Public Forum, and the Auction ends 72 hours after a winning Bid is made (ie sent). Now let us consider each Auction individually: High Oligarch ------------- harvel made a winning Bid in the Auction for High Oligarch on Mar 9 at 17:26:46 (GMT). Palnatoke allegedly made a bid on Mar 12 at 21:26:30 (GMT) but this was not a winning bid and so had no effect on the ending time. By 17:26:46 on Mar 12, no further winning bids had been made, so the Auction ended. The fact that harvel retracted this bid at 13:00:09 (GMT) on Mar 11 has no bearing on this. Neither does Blob's invalid bid on Mar 13. Therefore, this Auction ended at 17:26:46 (GMT) on Mar 12 Middle Oligarchs ---------------- This situation is more complex. * harvel made a winning Bid at 17:26:46 on Mar 9. * Wes alleges that e made a winning bid sometime on Mar 11. * Blob attempted to make a further winning bid at 01:11:26 on Mar 13. If Wes' claim is correct, then the Auction is still in progress, as there was less than 72 hours between harvel's bid and Wes' bid, and less than 72 hours between Wes' bid and Blob's bid. If Wes' claim is incorrect, then the Auction ended at 17:26:46 (GMT) on Mar 12, 72 hours after harvel's bid. Low Oligarchs ------------- * harvel made a winning Bid at 17:26:46 on Mar 9. * Wes alleges that e made a winning bid sometime on Mar 11. * Wes attempted to make a winning bid at 13:38:25 on Mar 15 If Wes' claim is incorrect, then the Auction ended at 17:26:46 (GMT) on Mar 12, 72 hours after harvel's bid. If Wes' claim is correct, then the Auction ended sometime on Mar 14, 72 hours after Wes' bid on Mar 11. Wes' subsequent bid on Mar 15 was invalid either way. ======================================================================== Caller's Evidence: (a) Rule 1887 (b) The annoucement of the Auction by Murphy on March 6 (c) harvel's bids of March 9 (d) Blob's bids of March 13 (e) Wes' bids of March 15 (f) A statement from Geoff Wong, relayed by Steve, noting that some mail was lost from the gecko server on the weekend of 11-12 March. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (a) Rule 1887/4 (Power=1) Default Procedure for Auctions When an Auction is required and the procedure is not defined elsewhere, the following standard Auction procedure shall be used. Details specified herein are defaults which may be modified by other Rules for specific situations. (a) Auctioneer: The Auctioneer is responsible for collecting bids and announcing the result of the Auction. Unless otherwise specified, the Speaker shall be the Auctioneer. (b) Bidders: Every Player not on Hold may Bid in an Auction. On Hold status is measured at the time a Player sends eir Bid. (c) Auction Currency: Each Auction is conducted in one particular currency. If the Rules do not specify a Currency to be used, then the Auction does not proceed. (d) Number of Items: Each Auction is conducted for 1 or more identical items. Throughout this Rule, N indicates the number of items up for bid in the Auction. (e) Start of Auction: The Auction begins at the time the first correct and legal announcement that an Auction is begun, as defined in other Rules, is sent to the Public Forum, together with the identity of the Auctioneer, the Auction Currency, the number of items, and the value of the Starting Bid. (f) Starting Bid: The Starting Bid is the minimum possible value of a bid. If not otherwise specified, the Starting Bid is equal to the MUQ of the Auction Currency. (g) Making Bids: Each Bidder may make as many Bids as e desires during the Auction. A Bid is a message, sent to the Public Forum, announcing that the sender is bidding in that particular Auction, and the amount of eir Bid. A Bid is only valid if it satisfies the following conditions: (1) The Bid is not made before the start of the Auction, or after its end. (2) The amount Bid is a multiple of the MUQ of the Auction Currency. (3) The amount Bid is no less than the Starting Bid. (h) Cancelling Bids: A Bid may be cancelled by its Bidder by posting such to the Public Forum, clearly identifying the Bid to be cancelled, while the Auction is in progress. (i) End of Auction: If, one week after the Auction started, there have been no Bids made, the Auction ends, and has no winner. Otherwise the Auction ends when 72 hours have passed without a valid Bid higher than the Nth-highest Bid (at the time the Bid is made) having been made. The Auction shall end 14 days after the Auction has started, if it has not ended earlier. (j) Winning Bids: When the Auction ends, the winning Bids are the N largest uncancelled valid Bids in that auction (or all valid uncancelled Bids, if there were less than N valid uncancelled Bids. Ties shall be broken in favor of earlier-submitted bids. The Auctioneer shall announce the winning Bids and their Bidders as soon as possible after the end of the Auction. For each winning Bid, the Auctioneer shall bill the associated Bidder: (1) The amount of the Nth highest Bid, if there were N or more valid uncancelled Bids in the auction; (2) The Starting Bid, if there were fewer than N valid uncancelled Bids. Note that it is possible for a single Player to have more than one Winning Bid. If this happens, the Auctioneer shall issue separate POs for each Winning Bid and shall not combine them into a single PO, and this Rule takes precedence over Rules which would permit such a combination. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (b) From: Ed Murphy To: agora-business@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 23:40:31 -0800 X-Sender: ford@mail.jps.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Subject: BUS: Oligarch Auctions (for real, this time) Precedence: bulk Reply-To: agora-discussion@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au I initiate an Auction for the position of High Oligarch. I initiate an Auction for the two positions of Middle Oligarch. I initiate an Auction for the three positions of Low Oligarch. For each of these Auctions, the Auctioneer is me, the Currency is VTs, and the Starting Bid is 1 VT. For reference, here is a list of attempted bids up to this point, in case anyone wants to bid the same thing as they did before: [irrelevant table deleted for brevity] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (c) From: Michael Slone To: agora-business@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au (agora-business) Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 12:26:46 EST Subject: BUS: Oligarchy bids X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 212.4] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: agora-discussion@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au I bid 31 VTs for a Low Oligarch position. I bid 101 VTs for a Middle Oligarch position. I bid 101 VTs for a High Oligarch position. -- Michael Slone - http://vir.fclib.org/~harvel/ Look, I got an A in Chinese Room. I took the course for credit, I got my term paper in on time---why do I have to keep taking it over and over? -- John Searle ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (d) Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:11:26 +1100 From: Malcolm Ryan To: Agora Business Subject: Re: BUS: Oligarchy bids Reply-To: malcolmr.2@cse.unsw.edu.au Mail-Followup-To: Agora Business X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200003101344.IAA15755@msuacad.morehead-st.edu>; from +mpslon01@msuacad.morehead-st.edu on Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:43:52AM -0500 On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 08:43:52AM -0500, Michael Slone wrote: > I bid 2 VTs for a Low Oligarch position. > I bid 1 VT for a Middle Oligarch position. > I bid 23 VTs for a Middle Oligarch position. > I bid 1 VT for a High Oligarch position. > I bid 17 VTs for a High Oligarch position. I bid 250 VTs in the High Oligarch Auction I bid 103 VTs in the Middle Oligarch Auction Blob -- Malcolm Ryan - malcolmr@cse.unsw.edu.au - http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~malcolmr/ AI Dept, CSE, UNSW, Australia, Phone: +61 2 9385-3988 Fax: +61 2 9385-1814 "Just as we are. At a total loss. Jesus is for losers. Broken at the foot of the cross." - Steve Taylor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (e) From: magika@aracnet.com To: agora-business@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au (agora-bus) Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:38:25 -0800 (PST) Subject: BUS: Oligarch bids again X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] Precedence: bulk Reply-To: agora-discussion@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au If it is not too late, we will resubmit the bids that we originally sent last Saturday (but do not appear in eGroups). We bid 150 VTs for Middle Oligarch We bid 50 VTs for Low Oligarch Wes magika@aracnet.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- (f) From: Steve Gardner To: "Agora Business List (E-mail)" Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:03:28 +1100 Subject: BUS: FW: gecko problems? X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Precedence: bulk Reply-To: agora-discussion@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au In response to my enquiry about problems with gecko over the weekend, I received this from Geoff, gecko sysadmin. -----Original Message----- From: Geoff Wong [mailto:geoff@gecko.serc.rmit.edu.au] Sent: Wednesday, 15 March 2000 16:00 PM To: Steve.Gardner@vec.vic.gov.au Subject: Re: gecko problems? Hi Steve, > Was there some trouble with gecko over the weekend, maybe lasting into > Monday? Several messages sent to the gecko lists during this period seem to > have vanished into thin air... Yes - I'm afraid it true. Gecko crashed badly over the weekend (maybe due to script kiddies - not sure why). Anyway - I had to restore gecko from tape so some mail was lost. Geoff ======================================================================== Judge t's Arguments: Wes has claimed that e sent a valid bid before the end of the auction but there is no hard evidence. If we take Wes's word, the auction ended at Mar 14 at an unspecified time. If we refuse to accept it as evidence, the auction ended at Mar 12 17:26:46 GMT. In the first case, the winners of the auction are Steve, Michael and Wes and the value of the Nth largest bid is 50 VTs. In the latter case, the winners are Steve, Michael and harvel and the value of the Nth largest bid 31 VTs. As the auction has ended anyway, regardless of Wes's bid, I find this statement to be TRUE. The opinion of the Judge is that we should accept Wes's bid. However, as the CFJ is only about the end of the auction, someone else must make an official ruling about the winners of the auction. ======================================================================== Judge t's Evidence: ======================================================================== -- Michael Slone - http://vir.fclib.org/~harvel/ This is an ordinary paragraph made different by content. -- Gertrude Stein