[blml] 2007 laws

[Eric Landau]

On Oct 17, 2007, at 4:37 AM, <gesta at tiscali.co.uk>  
<gesta at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> We received opinion on our earlier
> draft from some seventeen sources - NBOs and Zones plus the
> Portland Club - and any individual players wishing to express
> opinions were guided (here on blml, for example) to send them
> to their NBOs. Bear in mind that the members of the WBF are
> the NBOs.

Let us hope that by the next round of law revisions the high and  
mighty who sit on the councils of the WBF will have recognized the  
reality that confronts actual bridge players who live in jurisdiction  
of certain NBOs, including one very large one, to wit:

Individual players wishing to express opinions have a better chance  
of conveying those opinions to the WBF if they write them on a piece  
of paper, put it in a bottle and float it out to sea than if they  
send them to their NBO.

Grattan and the others, I'm sure, see some distinction between  
politely guiding players to send opinions to their NBOs and simply  
telling them to f-ck off, but from where I sit there's no practical  
difference at all, and the WBF should not be surprised when players  
react to such "guidance" accordingly.

I'm not saying that it is unreasonable for the WBF to tell individual  
players with presumably idiosyncratic opinions about the laws to f-ck  
off, but it is patronizing and dishonest to pretend that individual  
players everywhere have access to the WBF's decision-making process  
through their NBOs.


Eric Landau
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Silver Spring MD 20910
ehaa at starpower.net