[blml] An EBU L&E decision.

[Steve Willner]

> From: Gampas at aol.com
> Grattan gave details of the full ruling, which can also be read at
> http://www.ebu.co.uk/lawsandethics/misc/publications.htm
[case 1]

Thanks for quick response.

> ...some mail servers garbled the  presentation.

Not the mail servers; the mail was sent in a format other than ASCII text.

> The basis of the appeal was that there was a failure to alert the  3H bid, 

I see that now and won't comment on EBU alerting except to say that I've 
been wrong about it before.  Frances Hinden pointed out an interesting 
aspect of the case: an AC can decide what is alertable.  (Though Frances 
was involved, I think her comment is entirely proper.)

The circumstances around the 2D bid are not clear to me, but apparently 
it was alerted, North asked, and the answer was "transfer" with no 
further information.  If so, that seems clear MI to me, though it's a 
judgment matter whether the MI caused damage.  I'm surprised the AC 
didn't consider this aspect.