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Subject: Re: Who has burden of proof, author or Tournament Committee?

Author: Bob Durrett

Date: 17:45:56 11/27/03

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On November 27, 2003 at 20:35:50, Roger D Davis wrote:

>On November 27, 2003 at 20:24:01, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>>So the committee felt it had an obligation to satisfy the complainant, when in
>>>fact, the obligation of the committee was to request solid evidence from the
>>>complainant, not circumstantial evidence.
>>
>>If you are a programmer, you know that this is not possible. Making clones look
>>different from the original is too easy.
>>
>>The rules of the tourniament are not great, but it is as with Democracy. It is
>>the best of all bad systems.
>>
>>>My theory, therefore, that the accuser has some special relationship with the
>>>committee members. Who is the accuser to have such a special relationship?
>>>
>>
>>Oh come on. Do we really have to read such crap in every second post here. You
>>are smarter than this.
>>
>>Georg
>
>I said the obligation of the committee was to request evidence that was more
>solid before proceeding to request the source. I did not say that it was
>possible to provide evidence that was postively damning. I only said that the
>committee was obliged to request evidence that would pass a more stringent test
>than being merely circumstantial before proceeding to the next step.
>
>Roger

If I understand this thread, it all boils down to whether or not the evidence
available to the committee was sufficient to justify their unholy actions.
Apparently not.

Bob D.



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