[blml] Tie me kangaroo court, sport [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[Tim West-Meads]

Alain wrote:

> However, when a player makes any gesture towards one's bidding box, 
> the irregularity has already happened. This means attention may be 
> drawn to it.   Of course, this irregularity is of the kind that will
> seldom incur penalties, but it is an irregularity nevertheless.

That addresses a specific case but doesn't, for example, cover the 
partner who starts to remove 1C from the bidding box at his turn when 
his RHO has opened.  My opinion remains that the reason the laws are 
silent on the issue is that nobody in 1997 thought it necessary to state 
the obvious (ie that where infractions can be prevented it is better 
that they should be.)  This seems consistent with the expectation that 
in on-line bridge the coding will prevent such mechanical irregularities.

Tim