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Subject: Re: No proofs and worthless disproofs

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 08:08:41 11/28/03

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On November 28, 2003 at 03:53:53, Matthias Gemuh wrote:

>On November 28, 2003 at 01:57:44, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>On November 28, 2003 at 01:49:36, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On November 28, 2003 at 01:28:52, Slater Wold wrote:
>>>
>>>>And you're it on Crafty.  :)  SO, please take a look at the following 'suite'
>>>>and tell me your thoughts on how close List 504 is to Crafty 19.03.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>I don't see any similarity, particularly.  But note that we don't know
>>>what was being used in the WCCC event, so comparing to something else
>>>doesn't really say much.
>>>
>>
>>David Levy's letter says, and I quote, "This evidence relates to two older
>>versions of LIST, namely 4.60 and 5.04 which are publicly available."
>
>
>And he said Crafty version was 19.03 ? And similarities are in output ?
>Stop all these illogical proofs and disproofs !
>We have no proof and _cannot_ disprove the accusation.
>
>/Matthias.

I agree 100%.  List was not disqualified for "cloning" Crafty.  List and it's
author were disqualified for not responding to the committee properly and that
in my opinion is all that is needed.
Jim



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