Author: pavel
Date: 03:59:20 06/21/00
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On June 21, 2000 at 03:57:59, Masciulli Gianluigi wrote:
>Why registring a computer on fics is so hard.
>
>we in italy have 5 programs:
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>Raffaela, Larsenvb, Fortress have an account on fics.
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>Leila and Golem have a request for an account pending.
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>I submitted the request on may 22 and until now I was not able to understand
>what's going on.
>
>the author of leila is in the same situation.
>
>May be they don't want new programs on his server but our programs are not
>clones and a registred account would be usefull to improve our program
>
>I know that adrian regimbauld post here and he was the person who manage the
>computer account until june so he may know what's is going on
>
>I'd like to partecipate on computer tournaments on fics, but this seems not
>possible.
>
>what's the matter?
>
>Anybody here esperienced the same problem?
>
>
>gianluigi
HI ,
This is the one reason i have quit going to FICS, the last time i went to
fics was 8 months ago, i dont know if my account is still active. FICS IMO has
the worst customer service (or in this case administrators) of all servers. I
gave them one request for a computer account and when I didnt get a response I
asked an admin, he told me to have patience and wait "in a very bad manner",
after 4 weeks i asked again this time to another admin, he dirrectly told me
that they are not accepting anymore computer accounts. The First admin told me
they are accepting but will take time, the other one said they dont!!. Okay lets
say its understandable, but what hurt me most was that in the same week thay
allowed new computer accounts like cstal(c) (either the account was cstal or the
program was cstal). when i told him (the account holder) how it was possible? he
told me that he has "connections"? well what the hell!! after that I didnt know
what to do? so i quit. Besides try chess.net they have bettter everything. In
peak hours they always have more players than FICS. and
have fun,
Pavel
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