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Subject: Public Post of Private Content

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 11:41:53 05/20/98


I have read some post where people seems to be bothered because some
body here -me, to be sure- has posted things that they deem to be
private and only communicable thought private email; the public thing
here, they seems to thinks, is chess computer and nothing else. They
would like that a rule about it was decreed.
Well, just a couple of words about: this is a site ABOUT chess computer,
not a site visited BY chess computers.This is not, either, a scientific
magazine, where communication is only about an issue and according to
the rules of the scientific protocols and  jargon.  So we must let some
room to the kind of communication real people have. People communicates
in a great variety of forms and all are valuable and necessary in
certain occasions. Maybe I am the only sociologist here, but it is not
necessary to be one to understand how this operates; is enough to be a
person with some minimum degree of perspicacity to see what people do
when they appears to be just giving information each others. Remember
again: this is JUST a place where people interested in chess computer
meet each other. OK; that is then the main stuff, I agree, BUT a degree
of non-topic talk should be aloud even in public without criticism
because is the kind of thing that add some variety and life to social
intercourse. Again: this  is a place for social intercourse about
computers even if some of you guys believes this a kind of social
intercourse between computers.  I ask you to imagine just for a second
what a ridiculous place  this would be if not any kind of chat could
appear now and then.  Wake up, my friends: this is enough mad -grown-up
people losing hours of his lives in chess computers et al- in itself to
do it even more silly with a out of place attitude of seriousness. Life,
God, salvation, self fulfillment are serious things at a degree: the
rest is just noise. Even Gods take a laugh here and there. And of course
all this on topic taking into account the vote that will happens in some
days.
Fernando.



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