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Subject: Re: Nominees, Let Me Start the Ball Rolling...

Author: Mark Young

Date: 12:27:53 06/05/99

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On June 05, 1999 at 12:13:45, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Hi Steven:
>I have read the post by the other candidates and I truly wonder what a heck I am
>doing here. It seems that my thought about this matter is so opposed and
>different to that of almost any other guy that I must conclude I am out of
>place, completely wrong, an excentric kind of criature. I say this because I
>cannot understand that a thread about anything connected with chess could be
>targeted as deserving deletion or even to begin a discussion of such a thing.
>I say more: anything discussed here, no matter the topic, it is for me on topic
>provided there are answers to it and so people interested in it. And if there
>are not, where the damage is?  I cannot understand this obsesion with purity
>because the site has "computer-chess" name and no "computer chess". Even in the
>most serious magazines of the world you can find room for gossip, cartoons,
>jokes, etc. So what? If I want to discuss a jazz record with somebody here
>because this is a computer-chess site and so I can get a different appraoch to
>that than in a jazz site, what is the problem?
>With this polity of content- cleansing waht we are going to get is more of the
>same, saym, people going out and a deeper and deeper fall in just technical
>stuff. Maybe some people here forget this is not a scientific publication, but
>just a site. I would run out of here in a rush the day I only see post about
>hash tables.

Hell no you are not completely wrong, I think you are right on target in this
post. I know Bruce may not total agree with your post here, but I know he is not
gung ho either. So I already know where two of my votes are going.

>Fernando



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