[gsc] Does anyone out exchange loom?
R.A. Hettinga
rah at shipwright.com
Sun Jun 3 08:09:47 PDT 2007
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Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:32:45 -0400
From: Patrick Chkoreff <patrick at fexl.com>
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To: gold-silver-crypto at rayservers.com
Subject: Re: [gsc] Does anyone out exchange loom?
A slight correction to my previous email is in order.
Patrick Chkoreff wrote:
> But now here's where things get even easier. Let's say Alice wants
> to make another payment, this time paying 3.25 grams to Carol.
> Here's the process.
>
>
> 1. Type 3.25 in the Qty field.
>
> 2. Click "Carol" in the drop-down location menu.
>
> 3. Press Give.
>
>
> Note that this time, Alice didn't even have to select the asset type,
> since she had already selected "grams loom gold" before.
>
>
> But wait!, you may ask. That's too easy, and Alice might make a
> mistake. Let's say Alice entered 32.5 instead of 3.25. No problem.
> When Alice notices the mistake, she can just quickly press the Take
> button to take the assets right back. Then she can fix the number
> and press Give.
>
> (Now if Bob somehow managed to be in his folder RIGHT AFTER Alice
> made her mistake, and he saw the 32.5 grams sitting there, and he did
> a Take to grab all those 32.5 grams before Alice had a chance to take
> them back herself, then there's a problem. But that's unlikely. And
> if it happens, then Alice should (1) chide herself for being so
> careless and (2) tell Bob to give the money back.)
Since this particular example involves Alice paying Carol, not Bob, I
must amend that last paragraph to:
> (Now if Carol somehow managed to be in her folder RIGHT AFTER Alice
> made her mistake, and she saw the 32.5 grams sitting there, and she
> did a Take to grab all those 32.5 grams before Alice had a chance to
> take them back herself, then there's a problem. But that's unlikely.
> And if it happens, then Alice should (1) chide herself for being so
> careless and (2) tell Carol to give the money back.)
-- Patrick
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