Re: Can a legal non-alert be misinformation anyway?

> Gordon Rainsford wrote:
>> Short answer to the title question is "no".

Gordon's message didn't make it to me, but I agree with the answer.  If 
opponents are not properly informed, that's either their own fault or a 
fault with the alerting rules.

Here's a follow-on question.  In a jurisdiction that requires a 
mandatory pause after a skip bid, should it be (or is it) mandatory for 
the next person to ask the meaning of the bid (or perhaps look at 
opponents' system card)?  After all, the purpose of the pause is to make 
it seem as though the next player is considering action.  How can he do 
that without knowing the meaning of the bid?

FWIW, if the alerting rules were "nothing above 3NT," I'd always ask 
about a 4C or higher bid on the first round of the auction no matter 
what hand I held.
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