Jay Mitchell wrote:
>
> Brian Kennedy wrote:
>
> >The rules makers didn't _intend_ to allow the RX fuel system.
>
> You and Mark Sipe are apparently, at least in your own minds,
> omniscient. How in hell can you claim to know the INTENT of the
> rulesmakers if you didn't participate in the rules-writing
> process?
You don't have to be all-knowing -- you can simply talk to the
guys involved in the rules-writing process -- they're nice guys
and will tell you what their intent was.
> >However, in the protest process, they can't punish people for
> >following the written rules.
>
> Well, that's a real favor. If you COULD punish someone for
> following the "written rules" rather than the "intent" as
> presented by the allegedly omniscient, then why even HAVE rules?
Exactly. And that's why the protests (rightly, IMO) failed.
> > And they judged that the written
> >rules allowed it. But they didn't want the written rules to
> >allow it.
>
> So, there is a CHANGE in the rules. You can't really say what was
> the original intent of the rules, only that a later SEB decided
> that they wanted to change them.
True -- if you just read FasTrack and guess from there. But there
_are_ other sources of information.
Brian
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