Author: Mike S.
Date: 07:33:03 06/11/04
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On June 10, 2004 at 20:56:32, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >(...) I will prefer to read-only you in future. This will probably be better; btw. I'm considering to finally discontinue reading/writing CCC anyway due to bad benefit/time expenditure ratio (giving various tips for newbies etc. then and when has turned out not to be a sufficient motivation to participate). For the other readers, I just want to add that there have been made a lot of wrong statements about the CSS Forum and how critical postings are treated there. In fact we encourage all computerchess fans to issue their opinions and critizism about all aspects of computerchess - but in a way that makes sense (i.e. based with data when required), and in a civilised way. Notice that if it was true what is claimed here, the same critical postings which raised this whole talk, just would never have appeared. But the could be posted and raised the discussion subsequently (about how to critizise a test suite, and lately simply about a specific test position). The only difference to a perfectly normal message board conversation was, that there was some tension because earlier, one poster was repeatedly trying to push an opinion of test suites being useless in general without providing enough data to base this opinion at, yet. But that happened in the message board's public, readable for anyone. If there had been the censorship Rolf always claimes there is, nobody would have ever seen that except the poster himself, and that discussion wouldn't exist. But it exists, proving that there was no censorship. It was just a discussion a bit rougher than usual, maybe (rougher for our mellow standards :-)). I guess a majority of the audience knows Rolf anyway :-) I ask those who don't know CSS not just to trust what a few persons always like to tell about it, campaign-like. You can always build your own first-hand opinion if you're interested: http://www.computerschach.de/ http://www.computerschach.de/forum/ (mostly in german language) To put it in a nutshell (admitedly a bit exaggerated): Osama Bin Laden writes a letter to the editor of the New York Times discussing garbage collection issues, and later protests against censorship because his "normal letter" is never published... :-)) Regards, M.Scheidl
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