Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:02:31 12/18/98
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On December 18, 1998 at 21:40:40, Dann Corbit wrote: >On December 18, 1998 at 20:42:01, SEAN EVANS wrote: > >>On December 18, 1998 at 18:09:56, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>I think Don was trying to make a point which you missed entirely. If Adolf >>>Hitler were still alive and asked to join the group, I think the operators >>would have to think long and hard before letting a person of that nature in. >>Even before he ever made a *single* post, he would be prejudged because of what >>>others already knew about him. I am not saying that you are like Adolf Hitler, >>>far from it. That is just an illustration. But the point is a dog that has >>>once bitten, even in a different neighborhood, will be viewed with great >>>suspicion, in much the same way that "even an ass" is half an anagram. >>>"seen as van" being the obvious other half. >> >>So you have just compared a CCC member to Adolf Hitler and called him an Ass, >You made both of those inferences, even though I clearly stated otherwise. If >this post had followed a message by Dr. Hyatt or Amir Ban or Don Daily or >Prakash Das or Kai Skibbe or Didzis Cirulis or Komputer Korner or Harald Faber >or Will Singleton would you have jumped to the same conclusion? Why or why not? > >>I guarantee their will be a War in the Computer Chess Community if *you* get >>elected. >Hopefully, I won't get elected and we won't even have to worry about it. By the way, I think there are enough of "us" to guarantee that there *will* *not* be a "war" in the computer chess community. Hard to fight a war when one side is unarmed... And your password can be removed as easily the second time as it was the first time.
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