Re: Please Explain post allert procedure

Steve Foster wrote:

> David Stevenson wrote:
> 
>> Steve Foster wrote
>> > Mark Brader wrote:
>> > 
>> > > Michael Ravera writes:
>> >>> In the ACBL, it's 3NT or above beginning with Opener's second
>> call.
>> > > 
>> > > Again, no.  It's bids *above 3NT* beginning with opener's second
>> > > call.
>> > 
>> > I assume you meant after the *initial call*, or did you mean that:
>> > 
>> > 1H - 4NT
>> > 
>> > requires an alert in the ACBL?
>> > 
>>  Can I ask why you assume he means something entirely different form
>> what he says?
> 
> Because the whole topic has been confusing with multiple inaccuracies
> and corrections (and one of the "laws" of usenet is that any corrective
> post inevitably contains an error itself), and the outlined treatment
> is quite different than here in EBUland where the 4NT in my posted
> auction would not be alertable (AIUI, under any cir***stances).
 
It wouldn't be alertable in ACBL-land, either, provided it's Ace-asking. 
That's why both posters said "beginning with opener's second call".  If it
was alertable, it would be alerted _immediately_.