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Subject: Re: Why I rarely visit the CCC

Author: Chris Kantack

Date: 18:10:47 07/03/03

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On July 03, 2003 at 02:09:20, margolies,marc wrote:

>On July 03, 2003 at 01:11:18, Chris Kantack wrote:
>
>>I'm a regular reader and poster to rec.games.chess.computer (an unmoderated
>>newsgroup).  Yet I find rec.games.chess.computer to be a far more civil and
>>welcoming community than the CCC!
>>
>Oh yeah. I read the battery acid that trickles there. Disgruntled, inexperienced
>users bashing chessbase instead of posing questions. Everyone bashing S.Sloan as
>though that had something to do with computer chess.
>There is sometimes interesting stuff there, admittedly. Hyatt posts there
>sometimes.
>Mostly it is a cabal of bores slamming sherzer or agreeing with 'gunny bunny'
>about some reposted journalism. This leads me to think that your definition of
>"civility" is not very intersesting. CCC is a good place to honestly test ideas
>regarding the defined purposes of this forum. And I certainly don't mind the
>occassional snipe as long as it bounces off of this duck's back.

You are confusing rec.games.chess.misc and rec.games.chess.politics with
rec.games.chess.computer.    rec.games.chess.computer doesn't have a fraction of
the noise found in the first two groups.   (But even the first two groups are
more civil than here!)

Chris



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