Author: Jerry Doby
Date: 10:37:19 03/21/02
Go up one level in this thread
On March 21, 2002 at 11:49:19, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On March 21, 2002 at 11:26:59, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On March 20, 2002 at 22:33:11, Will Singleton wrote: >>[snip] >>>Well, as a fellow AOL'er (who got his account in 1993 or thereabouts), perhaps I >>>should take offense. Of course I don't, since I've grown up a bit (netwise) >>>since then. >> >>Actually, the AOL remark was obviously somewhat tongue-in-cheek. Some of the >>very best posters use AOL or some equivalent anonymous remailer type of >>accounts. You and Dieter are two obvious examples that spring to mind. > >I found this out the hard way when I was still working with FICS. > >A person mailed support to ask for a computer account for 'his' >program Comet. He had an @aol address. I thought, no way, >Ulrich Tuerke is a German and there is no way someone like him >would use AOL anyway. I sent him an angry mail that he would >never get a computer account if he kept lying about his identity. > >Thank God, Ulrich sent a friendly mail back, and I got a chance >to apologize. > >-- >GCP And you surely deserved to apologize practicing the Same "Rush to Judgement" tactics as you do here.
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.