[blml] Double Dummy play [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

[John Probst]

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>
> WBF Laws Committee minutes, 24th August 1998, item 6:
>
> 6. Internet Bridge Laws Mailing list.
> The activities of the bridge laws mailing list on the
> Internet were mentioned. The Chairman expressed anxiety lest
> Directors, especially those in poor contact with their NBOs,
> began to take guidance from this source, some of whose
> contributors present strange opinions. The Secretary
> supported the Chairman in what he had said. The Committee
> was in part inclined to believe they should bring forward
> requests for decisions formally; the view was taken that
> subjects might be collected and brought to the Committee at
> each year's meetings.
> The Secretary remarked that past decisions and recorded
> intentions of the Committee represented the position of the
> Committee unless and until it changed them.
>
That blml should be seen by the WBFLC as a mild thorn in their side is IMO a 
good thing. It brings an element of "being seen to be rational" to their 
deliberations. I believe they should welcome it, problems indeed that it 
might create.  john