Author: Steven Schwartz
Date: 10:24:33 05/19/98
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On May 19, 1998 at 12:26:26, Fernando Villegas wrote: > > >Hi Thorsten: >So you kids were excited by Enterprise stuff? Well, at that age my >experience con Sci-Fi, my favorite entertaining then and now, was with >Japanese monsters, beginning with Godzilla, a good, old, radioactive >monster, not the glamorous computerized shit Hollywood made of it now. >Then it was an honest guy hidden inside a kind of green plastic overall >with a zipper that you almost did not see. And of course we had the >awful nightmares produced by of the exploitation movies, you know, that >made in a week and where the beast of the outer space never appeared in >order to save a couple of bucks of the budget. Great times. But, of >course, the paramount thing in all my life of reading and looking Sc Fi >stuff has been and is the wonderful Asimov saga , you know, Foundation >and Empire, Second Foundation, etc.. That should be material for a great >TV show. >Now a question: the video clip in CSTAL was your idea? Sounds like that, >taking into account your inclinations. >Fernando Cute, Fernando. From a personal perspective, I enjoy your ramblings, and I certainly do not want stifle your (any anyone else's creativity), but for the sake of the CCC, I think that the post above is misplaced (and this is coming from a VERY liberal member of the FFG [former founders group] who was willing to put up with an astounding amount of what others saw as abuse.) I believe in a very loose interpretation of the membership application which we all signed to become CCC members, and that included agreeing to post messages that: "Are, within reason, on the topic of computer chess" Your initial repartee in an earlier post with Thorsten about Star Trek and such was fine, because it was a byproduct of the original computer chess conversation and could have ended at that point, or been thrown in to future postings as a joke or continued in email, but this post above indicates that you were "testing the waters" to see the reaction or see how far you could go. I understand that you managed a question at the end but that appeared to be more of an afterthought than the crux of the communication especially in light of the subject title. In my opinion, posts dealing with primarily Star Trek dialog do not belong in CCC for two reasons: One: Because the CCC takes up a fair amount of space on our server, and the extra expense of supporting lines of conversation on subjects other than computer chess or chess in general is not what we anticipated when we agreed to devote part of our web site to this project. Two: Because, when we all signed up, we agreed that we would, when posting, stay, "within reason, on the topic of computer chess." I happened to have disagreed with Dave when he mentioned that your earlier response to Thorsten was out of bounds, because, to me it was no big deal. However, this post seems to be an attempt to make an issue of what Dave said and that is not really necessary ESPECIALLY in light of the fact that Dave was not acting as a moderator. It is agreed, I believe, that we have come here to read about and/or discuss computer chess. If discussions on computer chess create laughter, or arguments, or side discussions, or anecdotes, that's fine with me, but PLEASE let's at least try to stay somewhere in the general range of computer chess. -Steve
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