[blml] Disclosure f2f

[Robert Geller]

Brian さんは書きました:
>Well, I'll tell you that it's an absolute pain in the backside as far
>as online bridge is concerned, where any number of newcomers to the
>online game who have played bridge under their local NBO think that it's
>*their* local regulations that are in force world wide. 

Each on-line site needs to adopt its own alerting rules, or even better,
the various major onlne sites need to adopt a common set of rules.
The situation is different for on-line bridge because self-alerting is
technically feasible (the oppts but not pard sees the alert).  if on-line
bridge ever became a major form of competetion then presunably what
happens there would heavily influence F2F bridge, but since the security
issues are permanently unresolvable (unless the competitors are concentrated
at a few heavily monitores sites around the world) this may never happen.

-Bob

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Robert (Bob) Geller,     Tokyo, Japan        geller at nifty.com