Author: Bob Green
Date: 05:18:39 09/05/01
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On September 05, 2001 at 01:08:21, Bruce Moreland wrote: >On September 04, 2001 at 21:22:24, Bob Green wrote: > >Bob and I have history with some of these people going back to about 1995. It's >a long and boring history, many aspects of which I don't want to bother to >remember. > >The group was founded to get away from Rolf and a few others. Ed, for instance, >was so bothered by Rolf that he sued him. I never knew exactly what that was >about, but the suit was thrown out on a technicality. > >>3. Clearly, many people feel strongly about Rolf Tueschen, typically equally >>vehemently disliking him. Why also remains unclear. > >If you want to figure this out, go to www.google.com, search the usenet group >"rec.games.chess.computer", for posts containing "rolf tueschen pope", written >by "TUESCHEN.MEDIZIN_KUNSTFEHLER@t-online.de". > >You can also try "rolf tueschen pope fachidiot" if you want to narrow it a bit. > >Read through that for a bit and realize that there was a *lot* of it happening >for a *long* time. Maybe this will give you an idea of what was going on, and >maybe not. > <snip> >Rolf was banned here for bad reasons for perhaps a year (?). He's not banned >here now. As far as I know he has not posted here since 1997. > That, sir, was eye-opening. I read no further than "From: Rolf Tueschen (TUESCHEN.MEDIZIN_KUNSTFEHLER@t-online.de) Subject: Re: Slow steps out of the gutter (was We all err) " I thought there was a lot of animosity now...then was much worse. The current writings of Rolf Tueschen and those are like those of two different people. I would not have nominated Rolf Tueschen if his current writings are like those. Perhaps he's changed. >>4. I took a zigzag route through a field not knowing the number of landmines >>when I made a sincere recommendation (not nomination as Ms. Sara Bird rightfully >>points out) for Mr. Tueschen because I **like** his "lets all calm down and let >>bye gones be bye gones" recent written words. > In the end, I hope whatever moderator is picked **is** inclusive - I still believe this could be healing. But the history here is so deep that I now see this was at best polyanna and at worse divisive in and of itself. >I hope that you and Sara will be able to understand things from each others' >point of view. > I now understand more her position. My thinking on the moderator for this group is that if **everyone** lightened up a bit and tried on your advice of trying to "understand things from each others' point of view" that this would be a nicer place for all. Unfortunately, life is not like golf - there are no "do overs" when things get to the personal insult level and feelings get deeply hurt. I'm going go back to just programming and posting on the technical issues when I have questions (or, hopefully, as my experience grows, suggestions.) Best regards, Bob Green
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