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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Planning Ahead for 1997 I-F Contest.
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C.E. Forman (ceforman@postoffice.worldnet.att.net) wrote:
> >However, there are some more serious and interesting things to be
> >discussed.
> >
> >1. Next year, all games will be entered anonymously.  Now, how will I
> >protect the copyrights of the authors if their names do not appear in 
> >the game?

> Use pseudonyms.  Books published under pseudonyms are still protected
> by copyright laws.

I think is workable, especially if the pseudonyms are "Lists I. F. 
Awther" and so on. Only the contest organizer has to keep track.

> Personally, I dislike the "secret command that pops up the author's
> real name" approach because people can wreck the anonymity by extracting
> the game text and peeking at it.

Right.

> >2. Entrants will be banned from talking about the entries while the 
> > voting period is underway.  Everyone else can still post about
> > the games, but authors will be disqualified for posting about either 
> > their own, or someone else's entry.

> And who's going to police this?  I mean, this IS the Internet, right?
> People can have multiple e-mail addresses.  What's to stop an author
> from (A) using someone else's e-mail address to post under their
> identity, or (B) getting a new e-mail address and posting using a
> fake name?  How can we protect against this?

> (I'm not against it at all; I simply question its feasibility.)

There is no protection. There is no protection this year against voting 
fraud, either. Nobody seems to care.

--Z

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