Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 07:36:55 10/22/00
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On October 22, 2000 at 05:46:11, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On October 21, 2000 at 21:00:33, James Robertson wrote: > >>The goal of the computer chess club is to read about computer chess. Posts about >>human chess are already off topic, and people have even been warned not to post >>questions about openings. I think having to see posts asking why some website >>out there that can't get its act together is not working is beyond reason. > >The goal of the computer chess club is also to write about computer chess. >Otherwise reading something you haven't read before would become increasingly >difficult. A few off topic posts now and then aren't that offending to most >people here I think. > >You're overreacting slightly regarding the contents of a very limited thread. >It's natural IMO for someone experiencing something strange to have it confirmed >by someone he/she trusts. Nothing unusual about that and fairly innocent if >limited. Besides, the subject should tell you to stay away if you're not >interested. > >Why post four messages in a thread you don't want to see? If you hadn't then it >would soon have been out of sight. > >Mogens. If somebody has a problem with their website, why don't they just email the site maintainer, e.g. webmaster@kasparovchess.com? That will alert them to a problem much sooner than any post here will, even after taking into account that somebody from that organization participates here once in a while. Speaking more generally, there are a lot of "very limited threads" around, and adding yet another doesn't help. The subject line could (and IMO should) at least have been prefaced with "OT:", "off-topic", or something similar -- which at least provides some minimum level of courtesy to those who are not interested in off-topic threads, just as the Mod: prefix I used for this messages indicates to readers that this post isn't about computer chess proper either. Dave
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