Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:18:29 05/30/98
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On May 30, 1998 at 12:14:09, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On May 30, 1998 at 11:47:41, SEAN EVANS wrote: > >>The problem with have having moderators with a commercial interest in >>Chess software is they may exploit CCC to make profits. >> >>I didn't give you people my Email address so one (1) person could spam >>me and exploit his position at CCC to make profits. >> >>Case in point; I received Junk E-mail from the German programmer Ed >>Schroder today trying to get me to buy his crappy DOS Rebel 9 program. >>I think this proves the selfish and self centered nature of Schroder and >>his departure as moderator a very good thing. > >Did he use the CCC mailing list? I got no mail from Schroder. > >If he did, you have a point. > >But I doubt that he did, because Ed has no direct access to the member >list, that is administered by ICD. If ICD used it to promote ICD, there >would probably be an outcry. I doubt he sent it to Ed, because of >course the same thing would happen in that case. > >bruce what probably happened is our resident 12-year-old Sean visited Ed's web site, and signed up, and forgot about it. As usual, he likes to make wild claims with no basis in fact. IE the first outcry from him was that his post had been deleted... when in fact, it was simple operator ignorance on his part as to how messages are grouped. No retraction from him, of course. My inclination would be to delete this entire thread, as it does not belong here...
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