Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 19:06:05 10/19/00
Search by author, keywords (at least in title, better title and text as selected), by date, boolean operators, wildcards, move up-thread, down-thread, etc. Hierarchical directory with hyperlinks to messages answering commonly asked questions. There are lots of hidden gems in the posts, lots of good advice, and people who know can't keep repeating the same answers every time someone new decides to start writing a chess program. It is a pitty that almost all of of the accumulated wisdom and practical resources here are burried to never see the light again in the zipped collections among thousands of nameless files. Adding a usable search facility would not only help people looking for good info on chess prorgamming, but would have a positive feedback into the quality of posts, since people posting would get a clear sense they're writing something which will likely be read years from now, instead of feeling they're throwing their thoughts and time down the river to vanish into a memory hole. People write and think differently depending on perceived permanence of their production. We would have fewer online-chat-quality posts and silly quarrels if the posters could get some tangible sense of permanence. As it stands, the sense one gets is of casual exchange one might see on a busy city square while passing someone by.
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