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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