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Subject: Re: Is this true?

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 13:15:49 08/01/01

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On August 01, 2001 at 12:42:09, Bruce Moreland wrote:

>On August 01, 2001 at 07:55:44, Tony Werten wrote:
>
>>Simply not true.
>>
>>To keep your example: The said "a long distance is going to be run" and ONE AND
>>A HALF MONTH BEFORE they stated it's going to be a 20.000 metres.
>>
>>Of course you can ignore that and two and a half weeks before the event start
>>claiming they chanced it suddenly.
>>
>>Tony
>
>I think you are misunderstanding something.
>
>Some people take this event seriously and want to do well.  Some people make
>serious personal and financial decisions based upon the content of these events.
>
>The ICCA owes it to everyone to set the event's parameters in stone some number
>of *months* before the event, so people have time to acquire hardware, make
>software changes if necessary, book travel at a cheap rate, and the like.
>
>July 7th or whatever was way, way too late to change the event from
>single-processor to multi-processor.  August 1st is way, way, way too late to
>decide suddenly that there are two parallel events.

Agreed. My point was that if you are right you don't have to say things that
aren't true.

Tony

>
>bruce



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