Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 22:24:04 05/28/00
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On May 27, 2000 at 19:31:54, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On May 27, 2000 at 15:52:41, Frederic Friedel wrote: > >>On May 27, 2000 at 13:02:28, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>>I remember very well. That was a tough time for a lot of people, but times have >>>changed and things are better now, as evidenced by your own presence. >> >> >>Wow. Isn't that the kind of thing you say to a black man >>on a bus in a southern state? > >There's a whole lot of meaning here, but I'm not sure that much of it pertains >to the issue at hand, and of that which pertains, I don't know which side of the >issue it supports. I'm also not quite sure if I said something stupid or not. >Therefore I'll state that what I said was said in innocence, and then I'll back >away from this, pretend I didn't read it, and restate my earlier point. > >You would have been a big target had you posted in r.g.c.c. in about 1996. You >can post here now without getting picked on. Beal, Marsland, and Schaeffer >posted on r.g.c.c. and had some difficulties due to people picking on them. I >think that any of them could post here now and not get picked on. > >bruce While I agree that it's a lot better now than say four or five years ago, I'd say that Chessbase is probably still the biggest target for somebody with an agenda. I'd guess that the academics could show up... ICCA executive members might get a tough question once in a while, but I think it would be more likely to end up as a positive discussion than a mess. There are enough commercial program authors here regularly to suggest that the situation is at least decent. Dave
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