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Subject: Re: Chess Vendor Posting on CCC Surreptitiously

Author: José Carlos

Date: 09:16:56 01/16/04

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On January 15, 2004 at 21:35:59, Mike Byrne wrote:

>To All CCC Memebers:
>
>We toasted Swartz on January 7th and Caissa signed on the very next day.
>
>Even though the IPs are different, the HTTP_USER_AGENT for both of them is
>identical: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; YComp 5.0.2.6)
>
>For the entire year there were only 6 that were identical to that of the 1000's
>of signups.
>
>The email address that Caissa uses directs one to a site that is sponsored by
>Chess Central and only Chess Central sells product there.
>
>Gary Swartz posted 9 times before he was toasted:
>http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=315282
>http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=333630
>http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=333733
>http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=333777
>http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=335464
>http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=340382
>http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=340455
>http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=340497
>http://chessprogramming.org/cccsearch/ccc.php?art_id=340597
>
>All but one was a flagrant advertisement for either Chess Central or Chess
>Exchange.
>
>Swartz had as his username and city:
>User name: ChessMagic
>City: San Antonio TX
>
>Caissa has as his username and city:
>User name: ChessBrain
>City: Texas
>
>Please boycott Chess Central and Chess Exchange for violating and totally
>disrespecting our Charter.
>
>Please report any repeated posts promoting Chess Central or Chess Exchange.
>Anyone posting a post that promotes Chess Central or Chess Exchange will
>permanently banned without any warning.  This organization is willfully
>violating our charter for their  own financial gain.
>
>Thank You.
>
>Michael Byrne

  This is just a question, no accusation or complaint whatsoever: isn't Frank
Quisinsky's posts selling Ruffian also a violation of the charter?

  José C.



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