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Subject: Re: tired of CM6000 posts

Author: Marc

Date: 15:43:41 12/14/98

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On December 14, 1998 at 17:12:11, Peter Kappler wrote:

>
>Am I the only person getting tired of the flood of Chessmaster 6000 posts?
>
>Without actually counting, I would estimate that 30-40% of the posts made in the
>past two weeks have been related to CM6000.
>
>I realize that this is the "Computer Chess Club" and that these posts are
>certainly not off-topic, but just as with Usenet newsgroups, when one forum gets
>too large, it is logical to split the discussion into sub-groups.
>
>So my plea to the people who maintaing this site is this: if the % of CM6000
>content continues at this level, would you please consider making a sub-group
>for Chessmaster posts?
>
>Of course, I am interested in what other people think about this idea...
>
>--Peter
>
>
>P.S.  I'd also love a sub-group for computer chess *programming*.  Finding the
>programming posts on CCC has turned into a "needle in the haystack" experience.

Yes.  Though I don't really care about the CM6000 posts (easy to detect/ignore),
I agree that finding computer chess programming subjects is getting pretty
tedious, especially without a search system.  But I suppose a newsgroup
dedicated to computer-chess programming *only* would be too specific to attract
any attention.



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