Author: stuart taylor
Date: 18:45:57 12/04/00
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On December 04, 2000 at 21:09:41, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On December 04, 2000 at 20:24:06, stuart taylor wrote: > >>On December 04, 2000 at 19:35:03, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>The following messages have been removed, due to multiple user complaints: >>>142875 >>>142870 >>>142868 >>>142855 >>>142854 >>> >>>Any future political messages will be removed immediately. Please stop posting >>>them here. There is always usenet for that sort of stuff. The GCF is more >>>tolerant of off-topic posts. You might try that forum instead, if you do not >>>have any newsreader capable of accessing USENET. >> >>Why at all should GCF be more tolerant of off-topic posts? >>And, if it is, why encourage it even indirectly if that will make less people >>have the patience to read it? I am also put off when I don't see much of >>anything serious to do with chess. So even if I ask a serious chess question, I >>would often get no reply at all! >> And, by the way, I don't think that human world championship results belong >>here either, if you don't accept OT. But on the GCF it DID belong. >>S.Taylor > >I don't see why they'd be any more alright on the GCF either, but it's not my >issue since I don't read it. > >I think that as a group we should be tolerant when someone wanders a little, >while maintaining common sense when A tries to argue that B's mention of the >weather where he lives, and C's response about the weather where *he* lives, >means that A can start a thread on abortion. > >We should keep this as a computer chess forum, while remembering both to a) not >lose our own humanity, and b) respect those who come here in order to get *away* >from heavier topics. > >bruce I agree entirely. By the way, Often an OT subject does seem to be followed by a discussion about abortion, doesn't it!!!! S.Taylor
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