Author: José Carlos
Date: 01:08:59 01/17/04
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On January 16, 2004 at 22:10:15, Mike Byrne wrote: >On January 16, 2004 at 12:16:56, José Carlos wrote: > >>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. > >I guess it might be - I never thought about it - nobody has ever complained >about it. We do not exactly look for problems where none exist and nobody >complains. As you state, you ae not making an accusation or complaint whatsover >either. The proper way to complain is to contact the CCC modetaotrs via an >email - not to post acomplaint about someone else's post. We may not read it. >We do not lurk here 24 hours a day looking for posts to delete and I certainly >do not read every post. > >There is also difference between the two posts. Posts from programmers about >new release of their program can be construed as an informative if done properly >and not repetitvely. Posts from a vendor acting as if he someeone else , >repeated over a period of time with essentialy the same message and who ignores >requests to stop is totally different. I am sure if we asked Frank to stop , he >would never make another post here again, period - is that what you want? Thanks for your explanation. The advertisment part of the charter is by far the less clear to me. I've been seeing ads here since I came for the first time (in 1999 I think) and I still can't clearly differenciate which are against the charter and which aren't. Hence my question. And to your question, no I don't want to prevent Frank to do advertisments here. Actually I don't have much of a problem with ads. But I'd like that all people are treated equally to be fair to everyone. José C.
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