Author: Christopher R. Dorr
Date: 12:43:37 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? > >Derek Bingley (2100 rating) > > <SARCASM> You have no idea how hard it was to choose ICD from all the many hundreds of sites offering to host a free forum for chess and computer nerds! I mean, the benefits accruing to such an entity would be *overwhelming* (maybe even hundreds of dollars of potential profits!!!), and all for the measly cost of setting up a membership-based server with hundreds (or is it thousands by now)of members, allowing space for thousands of threaded posts, maintaining a very high uptime, finding people to maintain the site, moderating the posts, setting up rules to govern (supposedly) polite discourse, etc...I mean, can you imagine all of the bids that were received offering to host it?! I agree that the astonishing level of commercialism from ICD must cease, though. They have a text link linked from another linked page! It has their *NAME* on it! That's unbelieveable! and you even have to *type* their name (www.icdchess.com) to get here! Appalling! They didn't even offer to buy us several domain names so that we would never have to sully ourselves by typing 'ICD'. In fact, maybe we can convince them to stop selling chess equipment, so that the fact that they are listed in the internet naming registry as being associated with the site can't be exploited. Perhaps they could start selling farm implements? Tractors...combines...threshers. Please let us know if you need others to jump in on a class-action lawsuit with you. </SARCASM> Chris
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