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Subject: Re: Lost at Dann's site

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 15:38:21 01/29/02

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On January 29, 2002 at 09:17:05, Andrew Williams wrote:
>On January 29, 2002 at 09:06:51, Sergei Smith wrote:
>>On January 29, 2002 at 08:44:32, Sergei Smith wrote:
>>>Here is a much smaller set, which contains all games where both players are 2000
>>>or better:
>>>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/Scid/2000.sg3.bz2
>>>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/Scid/2000.si3.bz2
>>>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/Scid/2000.sn3.bz2
>>>
>>>Size:
>>>01/28/2002  05:19p          25,928,462 2000.sg3.bz2
>>>01/28/2002  05:19p          10,671,755 2000.si3.bz2
>>>01/28/2002  05:20p             190,746 2000.sn3.bz2
>>>               3 File(s)     36,790,963 bytes
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>These filesizes is still quite reasonable.
>>>But are the correct ELO ratings set in each game ?
>>
>>Powerarchiver uncompressed these 3 .bz2 files but they do not contain games in
>>PGN notation.
>>If this is a Scid-specific format, I'm screwed because I do not have Scid, nor
>>do I intend to order it.
>
>Scid is free and is available from here: http://scid.sourceforge.net/
>
>You know, you could be a little bit grateful for the effort Dann has put in to
>providing his database of games.

Sergei seems a pretty nice guy, I have no problems with his approach to asking
for things.  I have had literally dozens of emails swearing me out for not
having things filtered the way that others want it filtered (where is your list
'by player' or where is your list 'by event!?' [or by 'year' or by whatever...])
 People get mad when I compress with an algorithm they don't already have a
compressor for or when my site goes down for any reason (despite the warning
they get when they log on).

Generally, if someone is rude to me, I simply ignore them.  I don't answer back
or anything.  If they repeat the behavior, my email client has a very nice
filter that deletes everything from a given address without me even having to
see it.

I'll be the first to admit that my site is hard to use.  I have put no effort at
all into making it easy to use.  But, everything is free and you get exactly the
technical service that you have paid for.



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