Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Private contracts

Author: Don Dailey

Date: 19:28:41 09/27/98

Go up one level in this thread


On September 27, 1998 at 21:11:21, Detlef Pordzik wrote:

>On September 26, 1998 at 16:19:46, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>
>>On September 26, 1998 at 15:54:08, John Coffey wrote:
>>
>>>Shaun,
>>>
>>>Your perception that you have been slighted seems to me to be way out of
>>>proportion of what actually happened here.  Nobdy should ever request that
>>>someone not respond to a post, and if somebody does respond to a post in
>>>a very minor way against your wishes, it should not invoke such outrage on your
>>>part.  If you feel that someone has made personal attacks against you then you
>>>should take that up with the moderators or the person, rather than "make a
>>>scene."
>>
>>Personally I don't give a fractional damn what kind of bizarre turf division may
>>be happening in this current situation.
>>
>>I am not about to become involved in members' private disputes such as: "You
>>promised never to misspell 'their' again, and there you went, you did it again,
>>I'm going to kill you, you lying jerk."
>>
>>If someone wants to do that kind of stuff, they can do it by email, and please
>>leave the moderators out of it.  Meanwhile, each post here will be evaluated as
>>to its conformance with the charter, which is not re-negotiable on an
>>inter-member basis.
>>
>>To be more clear, if A calls B a lying pig-dog and threatens to hang him from a
>>lamp post and beat him with a broomstick, and B writes this wonderful post
>>explaining that he forgives A because he thinks A has had too much sun recently,
>>B's post will be ignored by the moderators (I presume to speak for us all, but I
>>haven't discussed this with them) and A will get some email.
>>
>>This protects everyone, simplifies everything, and prevents the moderators from
>>having to interpret contracts between individual CCC members.
>>
>>I hope this is clear.
>>
>>bruce
>
>I thankfully have nothing to do with all this -
>but reading this mail has lightend my night hour reading on CCC - alot.
>Yet the original theme is quite serious - how on earth could you set up such a
>brilliant + funnly mail on this !
>Great thing, really. I may get dull allready , but I laughed to tears.
>( At least one thing to laugh about in here....)
>
>c/u
>
>ELVIS

This group is certainly entertaining.  I have been laughing all night
as I catch up with the post reading.  I love the way each tiny point
is put under a microscope and examined in detail.

Whittingtons posts were funny too, the funniest I've seen in a long
time.  We have a sense of humor too!

- Don







This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.