Mea culpa ...

[Tom Round]

I wrote:

>     7.1  A candidate's "defeat margin" means the largest
>          number of votes credited to any other candidate in
>          the set who outpolls that candidate on any pairwise
>          comparison.

Steve replied:

>    How about something like "defeat size" instead of "defeat margin"?
>    Pretty please with cherries on top?

Aaaargh! I did it again! Sorry, Steve, I don't mean to do this, but I seem 
to have been sent into this cyber-universe to frustrate you by continuing to 
talk about "defeat margins" [sic]. What happened here was that I lifted and 
pasted this draft set of rules from another doc I'd written a week or two 
before and forgot to change the offending term ... only several paragraphs 
after, and in the very same message that, I'd promised to stop using it.

Now is perhaps a good time to explain that I write some of my messages in 
wordperfect 5.1 on my computer at home, then convert them to text and post 
them on my next visit to campus (these tend to be fairly coherent, with 
points, headings, proper spellings, detailed citations, accurate statistics, 
etc) whereas most of my messages are written "on the spot" and "off the top 
of my head" while using a staff computer lab at Griffith University (these 
messages tend to have a lot of guesstimates, "I thinks?", "maybes", vague 
references, and fuzzy figures). The lab I use is a communal area, so I don't 
have my books, files, etc available to check while writing, as I would have 
if writing in my own office at home. Please keep the above in mind when I 
make factual errors, as seems to be disturbingly common lately, or fail to 
reply to messages sent!

Tom