Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:41:47 12/31/01
Go up one level in this thread
On December 31, 2001 at 11:01:32, Christophe Theron wrote: >On December 30, 2001 at 23:14:58, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >>On December 30, 2001 at 20:10:19, Albert Silver wrote: >> >>>On December 30, 2001 at 18:10:43, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>> >>>>On December 30, 2001 at 15:04:11, Kevin Strickland wrote: >>>> >>>>>On December 30, 2001 at 11:58:40, Bruce Moreland wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On December 30, 2001 at 03:06:10, Frank Schneider wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>:-) >>>>>> >>>>>>Four more already today. >>>>>> >>>>>>bruce >>>>> >>>>>Bruce it looks like you have a stalker.. I mean an admirer. >>>> >>>>Three more since then. >>>> >>>>bruce >>> >>>Love at first write? >>> >>> A.S. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>P.S. NC :-) >> >>Apparently not. I got two more. Here is the basic deal. >> >>They sent me a barrage of emails yesterday asking me if I would send them a copy >>of Ferret that played according to their variant, and offering to pay me if I'd >>do it. They also asked me for information about several 6-man endings. >> >>I politely declined to do this work for them, and told them that if they could >>program, they could modify Crafty to play this variant very easily. >> >>Their response was to ask me how much I'd charge, they asked me a bunch of >>questions, and they gave me some specifications for their project. They told me >>that they were going to stick with me: "u r our programmer". >> >>I replied that I wasn't interested in doing the work at this time. >> >>Their response was to ask me when I'd do it (two emails on this topic), they >>gave me some more specifications, they insisted that I answer their endgame >>questions, and they wanted to talk about how much I was going to charge them for >>the work. Having made myself clear, I felt, I did not respond to these emails, >>preferring instead to spend the day watching football on TV. >> >>Seven hours later I got a nice insulting email calling me a moron and an idiot, >>and telling me they'd hired someone else for a price they apparently thought was >>pretty enormous. > > > >I have got exactly the same sequence of emails, but one day earlier. > >I did exactly what you did. Declined politely, got an avalanche of insisting >emails, and finally insults. > >Who's next? :) > > > > >>I hope the guy they hired demands to get paid up front. > > > >:) :) > > > > > Christophe Happened to me a month ago. I also got a "second wave" later, but I refused to reply at all and got more insults as a result :)
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.