are YOU suggesting your a newbie! It was only you that was asked to
get OUT!
I'm a third party in this that doesn't really care but your no newbie
and could have
easily choosen to trade at another city that is not within someone elses
claimed land.
I personally thing your looking for a fight... and this is an easy
target.
Basil
p.s.
I will have to remember that if we have a disagreement in the future...
that you expect not
just the letter of the agreement followed but the spirit.
Mark Hendrickson wrote:
>
> Greetings fellow Olympiads:
>
> First, I have just read Keith's fine letter which explains quite
> well, to my mind, what the situation is.
>
> I have just re-read the treaty & must confess that Eric's reading
> of the letter of the treaty is correct. However, the spirit of the
> treaty, the spirit of the entire campaign against the New Empire, was to
> make the area around Yellowleaf an area in which newbies may freely
> operate & in which they may begin unfettered their Olympian careers.
>
> If we allow ourselves to be constrained by the letter of the law
> while in so doing we let the spirit of the law die on the vine, we have
> fallen into the fallacy of legalism.
>
> That we will not do.
>
> I am,
> not yet assuaged,
> Captain Arrrr