Author: steven blincoe
Date: 16:07:49 11/23/03
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>The issue in my mind (yeah in my mind) is whether we want this board filled with >chess programming discussions or a surfeit of sales literature koshered just >enough so that it cannot be immediately banned. We are opening a very ugly door >here. as far as i read it,this board is about COMPUTER CHESS not only chess programming but all apects of computer chess for my taste i would much rather see far less discussion about chess progamming or PC chess in general personally i would prefer much more discussion on Dedicated chess computers but i realize i am fighting a losing battle on that idea however to be honest,reading posts here day in and day out about Fritz v112.333 beating Shredder v235.112 is far less interesting to me then reading about an outright advert for a dedicated computer i mean just how many postings can one endure entitlted"Gentlemen start your Engines"?? actually come to think of it,i dont quite see what the problem is anyway so there will be a few adverts for commercial chess products we are all adults,just skip over any posting not appealing to you do you not read the newspaper because there are ADS in it? do you not watch tv? listen to the radio? now i realize that a commercial company maintains this board and so they would not want to be in the unusual position of helping a competitor by allowing others to advertise here..other then that reason i see no problem with it at all Steve > > >On November 23, 2003 at 10:01:43, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>On November 23, 2003 at 01:34:27, margolies,marc wrote: >> >>>links to order products from him >> >>I found no links to order products from him. I experienced no java hi-jackings. >> >>Most of the products are available here @ ICD. >> >>My biggest question is why so many reviews on Excalibur products and none on >>Novag or Saitek? Novag and Saitik are clearly superior to Exclalibur products >>over all. >> >>He also fails to mention that the latest version of Chess Genius runs 20x faster >>on OS 5 ARM 400 Mhz machine - that should be at least 400 ELO points stronger >>than the Genius on a old Palm running at 32 Mhz. >> >>I believe technically his post falls within the CCC Charter as I cannot >>determine that he is selling the products and I am not certain if he has a >>financial relationship with anyone who does - his website is presented as a 3rd >>party review. But his post clearly looks like a spam post. >> >>I am letting this post stay with reservations (I am not 100% convinced it is not >>spam just not sure it is. ) - of course one of the other moderators could delete >>it. Repeated posts with the same script may be treated differently.
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