Agora Nomic

current rules

I am the current Rulekeepor of Agora Nomic. The current ruleset is available in three forms:

• Full Logical Ruleset (approx. 230 kB)
• Short Logical Ruleset (approx. 130 kB)
• RCS versioned Full Logical Ruleset (goes back to 2001-05-18) (approx. 1.8 MB)

current proposals

I am the current Promotor of Agora Nomic. Here are the listings of currently active proposals:

• proposal pool (proposals submitted but not yet distributed)
• proposals under vote (distributed but results not yet published)

These listings are not necessarily up to date, because they depend on me manually adding the latest proposal submissions (and other actions) to my database.

historical rules

I am working on recovering and collating the history of Agora's ruleset. The documents here, covering the entire history, are works in progress:

• collated history annotations (approx. 400 kB)
• rule texts (approx. 4.9 MB)

There are large gaps in the record, and there are conflicting histories for a few rules. If you can help with these problems, please mail me.

Here are some snapshots of the ruleset at particularly early dates:

• 1993-06-30: the initial ruleset (17.1 kB)
• 1993-08-28: posted to Usenet (43.2 kB)
• 1994-11-22: from Vanyel's archive (114 kB)
• 1995-12-15: from Vanyel's archive (253 kB)

This series spans the first two years of the game, when the structure of the ruleset changed significantly. Notably the game switched from renumbering amended rules to letting rules keep their number and counting amendments separately. There was also a major change from voting on single rule changes to voting on proposals containing multiple rule changes. Such things haven't changed significantly since 1995.

historical proposals

I am working on recovering and collating the full sequence of Agoran proposals. For the time being, here are the most recent proposals, covering the period for which I have been Promotor and a little earlier:

• collated proposals (approx. 1.3 MB)

archives

Many archives of Agora material have previously been posted on the net and then disappeared. I am collecting Agora-related archives from anyone who will provide them, and posting them here. The intent is that they will stay here indefinitely, and also be mirrored from here in places such as the Internet Archive, so that they survive forever. The archives here are not meant for casual perusal; this is about long-term storage.

• assorted 1993 to 1998 Usenet postings (32.3 kB tarball)
• Oerjan's 1994 mail archive (2.46 MB tarball)
• Vanyel's 1994 to 1996 CFJ and thesis archive (307 kB tarball)
• Zefram's 1995 to 1998 ruleset and other bits archive (291 kB tarball)
• Vanyel's 1997 to 2001 mail and other bits archive (23.7 MB tarball)
• Murphy's 1997 to 2005 Agoran Weekly Journal archive (361 kB tarball)
• Chuck's website and 1998 to 2001 rulesets (288 kB tarball)
• Michael's website and 2001 to 2007 voting reports archive (318 kB tarball)
• yzma.clarkk.net 2002 to 2006 mail archive (14.4 MB tarball)
• root's 2003 to 2007 proposal archive and software (541 kB tarball)
• tue.nl 2003 to 2006 mail archive (6.24 kB tarball)
• yoyo 2003 to 2006 mail archive (10.4 kB tarball)

Any current and former players with Agora-related records, please let me know. Raw mail archives for any period of the game are of the greatest value. Systematic records of published rulesets or official reports are also particularly valuable. All material is worth preserving.

Other websites with historical material:

• Agoran Weekly Journal
• Vanyel (former Archivist) at the Internet Archive