Author: Steven Schwartz
Date: 15:26:45 10/07/98
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On October 07, 1998 at 13:35:24, Alessio Iacovoni wrote: >On October 07, 1998 at 12:02:24, blass uri wrote: > >> >>On October 07, 1998 at 11:49:20, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>A couple of days ago, Amir posted a brief description of his 1/2 ply >>>search. I found some information in my old "Cray Blitz" file about this >>>subject and was going to initiate a discussion about the idea, as I am >>>in the process of running some interesting tests on Crafty using this idea >>>at present. >>> >>>However, when I tried to find Amir's post, it is *not* there that I can >>>see. I even tried "filter", last 7 days, by author, and only found 3 >>>posts by him, none of which was the one in question. >>> >>>Did it get deleted by accident or intentionally or am I confused in what >>>the "filter" command should show? I even manually scrolled back thru >>>"next group of messages" for a week, but couldn't find the post in question. >>> >>>Do we have a technical problem, a moderator problem, an operator problem, >>>a Netscape problem (I use Netscape to access CCC) or what? >>> >>>Bob >> >>I think that it was more than a week ago so you could not see it by "filter" >>last 7 days >> >>Uri > >I think this thread has become unaceptably small.. If ICD could did not have >enough money for it to work properly why did it have to advertise and advertise >and advertise on alt.rec.computer.chess to make people swap over to it? If it >cannot run a decent thread then I don't see why not using alt.rec.computer.chess >(those annoying "sean" I don't know what messages apparently have ceased >bugging). Messages stay on CCC without being archived for AT LEAST 7 days. Once a week we move all posts that are over a week old to the readily available archive. We understand that the archive does not have a search engine, but that is one of our future projects. So the actual length of active posts is 7 to 14 days. 98% of threads die within the course of a week. 99.5% of threads end within 2 weeks. And in almost every instance, more recent threads incorporate the older thread's text within them. We used these statistics to help us make our decision to shorten the thread length. Bob's difficulty in finding Amir's post appears to be a function of a technical problem that occurred wherein 6 hours of posts wound up in hyperspace and had nothing to do with our shortening the length of active posts. This problem had never happened before, and we have taken measures to ensure that it will never happen again. As far as ICD "advertising and advertising and advertising" in the newsgroup and then not "running a decent thread", I beg to differ with you. We have worked very hard to create the layout of the CCC, and we have worked even harder to make sure that it has worked smoothly. You have no idea of the hundreds of man hours devoted to this project - not to mention at least an equal amount of work from the Founders and moderators. Just like every other legitimate company in the world, everything ICD does is not open-ended, but I believe we have offered CCC members, still offer CCC members, and will continue to offer CCC members a tremendous value for their dues to CCC which, as you know, are zero. Today is our one year birthday, and if you check the hit count at the bottom of the message board, you will see just how popular this project has become. I do not know if your feelings about ICD, the CCC, and our behavior in rgcc are shared with other CCC members, but I would be curious to find out. - Steve (ICD/Your Move)
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