[ASLML] "Mac Sez" and "Perry Sez"

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--- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Bakken" <bebakken at hotmail.com>
To: <mountainview at westelcom.com>; <Aslml at asl-forums.net>
Sent: Friday, November 28, 2003 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [ASLML] "Mac Sez" and "Perry Sez"


>
> >
> >I will accept any posting labeled a
> >Perry Sez as "certified", and I use
> >the Perry Sez Site.
> >
>
> I generally accept this sentiment, and those expressed below.
>
> What if you're playing someone who's asked a question of MMP and gotten a
> reply, but for one reason or another has not shared it with anybody?

I don't know. I agree with you. What do you do? Is it *fair* for only
one or two players to get an (official) "A", with which they will share
within their own group, and then "spring" it on all the rest of us poor
louts at a tournement? And I agree, how you do "certify" something
they've printed off their own PC that they say is genuine?


> According to the standards expressed by a fair proportion of ASLML
> respondent's, this "private" Perry Sez should be just as valid as any
other.
> Or is it only valid if it's *posted* somewhere?

As you know, they all (the ones deemed worthy, anyway) used to get
printed on hard copy in various publications as they came out - we
were regularly updated on official Q&A.

Now, there's no need to do that, although I don't see a problem with
continuing to do that *also*. The MMP Site is a perfect medium for
near-immdeiate dissemination of new Q&A/Errata. Those w/o PCs
and/or Internet will just have to wait for the hard copy to come out,
just like before.


> I'm not suggesting that anybody will lie and make up "Perry Sez"s.
>
> I'm suggesting there is no way to prove otherwise without an Official Q&A,
> and to force someone to accept a purported "Perry Sez" that is not
> Officially corroborated -- even if you are the TD and it is your
tournament
> -- is, well, just plain wrong.

With respect to a tournament, if that Tournament
has a rule for disputes that can't be settled by the
players, and that rule states that the TD will have
final  say, then it's up to the TD. Whatever
he uses for resources to make his decision is his
purview, and his alone. "Unofficial" Perry Sez, are
really then, just another "opinion" the TD culd consider.
That's the risk  you take if you can't come to a conclusion
as players.



>
> Regards,
> Bruce Bakken
>
> >Whilst it has crossed my mind that someone
> >could "make up" such a ruling, note that if
> >they ever got caught, they'd probably
> >become an ASL pariah. Any such public
> >posting, on, say, the ASLML, if it were
> >controversial enough, would undoubtedly
> >get the attention of Perry himself, and then
> >the cats's out of the bag.
> >
> >I have already expressed my dissatisfaction
> >with *not* having these things immediately
> >posted on the MMP Website as "official"
> >if the subject matter warrants it. I'm sure there
> >*are* times when he need only reply to the
> >sender, but *always* replying *only* to the
> >poster can only result in further splintering of
> >accurate rules knowledge, especially if the "Q"
> >is a very good one, and it's not something that
> >could otherwise be easily answered with the rules
> >as written.
> >
> >I will always post my "A"s to the ASLML, that's the
> >best I can do - Perry/MMP could do a lot better
> >by simply putting them on the Site, and making
> >them resolutely "official".
> >
> >Anyone that sends in a Q will need to accept that it
> >becomes MMP property on the spot, can be edited,
> >and disseminated as they see fit.
> >
> >If Perry/MMP are going to make official rulings, they
> >should make every effort to see that the *entire*
> >community has access, ASAP.
> >
> >
> >
>
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