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Subject: Re: Moderation: Chris Whittington has been suspended.

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 14:04:05 07/06/00

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On July 06, 2000 at 11:50:32, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>This is a club and a club gathers people that like to be into it. By the same
>token a club rejects people that the concurrence does not like to be with. So a
>club have a right to accept or not the coming of anybody and a club can suspend,
>expulse, etc. All that is OK, legally speaking, but still that does not speak
>well of a club  doing so because a member or candidate to be does not fit
>enterily in the average conformation of the club constituency. Doing that we are
>less a group of reasonably smart people than a bunch of old ladies playing cards
>and watching one to another with suspictions and bad will. Chris is not the most
>pleasant guy in the creation, not an amiable guy at least in his virtual
>incarnation, but so are a lot of people here if just one dares to face his ideas
>or dogmas about everything. Maybe moderators has his reasons, but the core of
>the issue is the kind of reasons that seems to be enought here for people to
>feel with reasons to do this. So we are idiots according to Chris? Well, who
>knows. Maybe I should punish my wife that certainly consider I am an idiot
>expending time with this "chess thing" and this "chess computer talking,
>writting and reading thing". But I will not. From her point of view she is
>right: I am a complete idiot. According to Chris we are idiots also inside this
>little, unimportant  realm of chess computers. So what? It is neccesary to be an
>extreme idiot for not realizing any of us is an idiot outside our particular
>fields of expertise and sometimes even inside them. It is OK for me to be warned
>about that from time to time. Of course Chris is also an imbecile or he would
>not come here to lose time and be expulsed.  Maybe he loves that, so he is a
>neurotic kind of idiot. Me too. I will be flamed by this post, I know, and
>nevertheless I continue writting it. What an idiot.
>Fernando

I enjoy watching Chris shoot himself in the foot.  It's a talent.  He's even
better at it than I am, so I'm in awe of that.

Pete



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