Author: Michel Chassey
Date: 07:33:05 04/16/99
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Here I must present myself : a raw newbie. To explain, my internet
connection is three month old. I now enjoy CD Base from Peter Klausler (free)
Dr. Hyatt's Crafty and Tim Mann's Winboard. I came in on the tail end of the
Hyatt - Zustrah controversy so I know nothing about that. But all usenet
groups seem to be affected the same way. People seem really to mind their
p's and q's about personalities and it looks like a slow-down all over.
My point is this, from reading all your posts I know you enjoy reading and
writing here. Us beginners, we need the info : anything you guys have to say
is useful to us. Hope that motivates a little. My English is also on the
suspected list : I'm a quebecien.
Now you'll know I'm a newbie : what is WCCR ?
Good day,
Michel Chassey
On April 16, 1999 at 09:13:17, Fernando Villegas wrote:
>Hi all:
>Here and there some posters have pointed the sad fact that nothing new appears
>in WCCR since long time ago and some of them even give ideas as how to give new
>life to the corpse. As a coordinator of this site -whatever thing that means- I
>can tell you that many efforts were done by steven and me to get things to be
>done, but people here simply did not attend our begging. People is prepared to
>read and sometimes to criticize, but not to write his own articles. Well, some
>did, but not enough to keep WCCR alive. A publication needs a constant flow of
>articles, not just one or two a month. Not only is not enough, but even produces
>a lose of interest and energy from us, the editors. You feel somewhat stupid
>doing things than nobody seems to care. If you take a look to all sections of
>WCCR you will see how many articles I wrote of any kind, not only reviews of
>programs, but the feedback was ever scarce. My effort was lost, so I felt. Maybe
>the mere idea of a publication like this has lost his sense these days. Maybe
>the articles were not good enough. Maybe people was scared to write and then be
>rejected. Well, we never rejected nothing on the ground of anything. Not Steven,
>not me. Less of all on the ground of style issues. Who am I to do so, when my
>english is sometimes -or many times- a joke?
>Nevertheless I am prepared to take again my share of the work there if at least
>half a dozen people engage to write at least one article a month. No matter the
>matter. Philosophy about chess computers, whatever. If they do, I will do. I
>myself did not write anymore due to the facts explained above. But the esential
>part of this are you, posters, AND Steven, the man that really must do the
>editing work.
>Fernando
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