Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 10:29:15 11/01/00
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On November 01, 2000 at 12:19:05, Derek Bingley wrote: >I can see that it was considered necessary to reduce commercial exhortations >from varied commercial groups. Did your group of enthusiasts also consider that >placing the club onto a commercial site such as this one would give the site >Your Move Chess and Games an advantage over other retail outlets? If your group >did not consider it then it should have done and if your group did consider it >what safeguards or site rotation possibilities did it consider? Did you consider >factors of media control or monopolistic control of market? I missed the first few weeks of those arguments, so I'm not sure what happened. If you look at a typical CCC page, you'll see non-graphic link to ICD, or you'll see a non-graphic link to Steve's resource center, which contains a link to ICD. I think that it would be difficult to figure out how Steve could do *less* advertising of ICD on here, unless he were to take out all reference to ICD and whip himself on the back with a birch branch a hundred times a day. The account list could also easily be turned into a list of addresses to spam, but I can't recall having ever gotten spam from Steve, can you? So if you are going to complain about commercialism coming from Steve, you are on ridiculously thin ice. It should be obvious to anyone that the value of CCC to Steve's business is only very little due to links to Steve's business, but rather it is due to the good will that Steve generates by hosting this site. Early on I told Steve that the way he set up CCC, it was not going to help his business much, but would get him a nice eulogy in the ICCAJ after he dies. I don't think he was happy with that, but he didn't do anything to change it. bruce
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