Equity, some questions

Thanks for the input; much more than I had expected.

An attempt to summarise:

There seems to be universal agreement that there is at least a formal 
distinction between penalty and rectification.  But that doesn't really 
address the central question of the original posting.  I attempted to 
avoid the word "penalty" by using "sanctions" as much as possible.  
Although all seem to agree that both pairs were equally at fault (and 
leaving the question of a p.p. aside since it would be the same for 
both) the situation of the pairs differs.  One had already played the 
bds. (and thus had a legitimate result) - the other hadn't and was 
scheduled to play the bds. later.  Thus there was nothing to rectify for 
one of the pairs but the other pair would have to be assessed an 
artificial score on such bds.  The general agreement seems to be that it 
should be A- (40%).  The present laws seem to be clear about this and, 
although it seems, in a certain sense, unfair to handle the pairs 
differently there would seem to be no alternative.  This was the action 
of the colleague in Berlin as well.  Theoretically, at least, it would 
be satisfying to have the pairs (both) treated in the same way but I see 
no way to do this and, in fact, can think of no way this could be done 
in an altered version of the laws.

Again, thanks for our postings,  Jeff Easterson
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