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Subject: Re: A Possible Explanation For The TOGA Affair

Author: Robert Hollay

Date: 00:32:31 12/24/05

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On December 23, 2005 at 16:45:31, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On December 23, 2005 at 15:51:57, Robert Hollay wrote:
>
>>What more he has to do? To lash his back until blood?
>
>Could you please tone down a bit? Of course I want to get the amputation of his
>four limbs! That's the minimum.
>
>Then I can also tell you what he should do. He shouldnt write such a crap, I
>quote:
>
>">this was an interesting year for me. i learned a lot of the human psyche. i
>>learned that some people canĀ“t forgive, that on one day all people are
>>enthusiastic for engine x and on the other day for engine y. and finally, that a lot of people take the hobby computer chess to seriously."
>
>This is hilarious. He insinutaed that people who once liked the cheated Fruit
>version would now dump it for no reasons. I say that a convicted cheater
>shouldnt accuse the community this way.
>
>I hope that one has the right to speak out one's free opinion. However we could
>also worship such a wrongdoing by belittling the guilt. We could then attack the
>critics against such a betrayal.
>
>Your question is reveiling a wrong motivation. You ask how many times he should
>be punished. I dont quite understand it. I would say, each time he appears and
>insults the community for its criticism of fraud someone should set the record
>straight. Easy one, no? Further questions? Please ask.

 Not all of us have a thick skin.
Thomas was humiliated here several times already. He is ashamed of himself
for his act. Respectable members here forgave him.
 I just don't want to drive away a valuable progammer from here. Don't know
how many lines he changed in Fruit, but he succeeded to make it significantly
stronger.
 I have no further questions.

merry Christmas,
  Robert



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