[EM] theorems about "point runoff" systems

[Michael Poole]

Abd ul-Rahman Lomax writes:

> At 11:01 PM 5/4/2007, Paul Kislanko wrote:
>>This is the kind of post that adds nothing to the EM debate.
>
> This is the kind of mistake we all make when we don't get enough sleep.
>
> Below is the remainder of the post from Mr. Kislanko quoting Mr. 
> Smith's post. But incompletely. One line is missing. The line with 
> the link. It was a single line immediately after the headers and just 
> before the signature. How Mr. Kislanko could have missed it, I don't 
> know. I'd think that his email software would have automatically included it.

The general tradition when sending email to a list is not to include a
single URL as the body -- otherwise, it tends to look like spam, a
crank's post, or something else that should be ignored.  When
subscribers to an email list want to read a blog or subscribe to an
RSS feed, they do that.  On an email list, it is reasonable and common
to assume that information is sent in-line rather than out-of-line.

On an email list, out-of-line argument increases the cost for others
to read or reply to the details of one's position.  This is
appropriate behavior when one dispenses wisdom from on high, but is
less useful when one wishes to engage in dialogue.

Michael Poole