Author: Harald Faber
Date: 07:00:03 12/23/98
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On December 23, 1998 at 09:44:59, Fernando Villegas wrote: >Hi candidates: >I have read carefully your statements and I feel very comfortable with the view >of Larry T. and someone else, but I am afraid that althought all of you are >mainly in a correct posture, with more or less inclination to be tough, I see >with some worry a somewhat narrow criteria about off-posting activities. Let me >say this very simple fact: off-post as any "off" comunication in any group is so >esential to the life of the group as the the main stuff. Specially here: THIS IS >NOT an specialized magazine in chess programming, where all the stuff should be >about it; this is a newsgroup formed and runned by people. Of course all of us >are interested in chess computers, BUT I dare to believe that the esential >purpose of all of us to be here, even if we do not realize it, is to communicate >with other fellows with the pretext of chess computers more than chess computer >as such. At least so it is for those of us that are not chess programmers and so >are not looking here just for some information. So, for the rest of us, no >programmers guys, any communication going beyond the field that define the group >cannot be considered as a kind of fault that can be "tolerated" or punished >according the views of the moderator, but as something positive, something that >give extra richness to and an extra reason to be here. Why I shouldn't be >capable of talking about jazz with KK if the topic appears, and do it so post >after post without "warnings" that we are off topic? Maybe somebody could say: >"go to a jazz newsgroup", but then if I do so I will not meet there KK and >besides it is precisely the mixture of other things with THIS thing that makes >interesting such probable communication. Could you grasp that? Off topic civily >conducted not only should be tolerated, but even stimulated. Anyway chess >computer will stay being the main concern, no problems with that, but at the >same time we will know more about each others and get more from our >communication. Only insults and attacks should be catalogued as off topic. >fernando I would tolerate off-topic but in a limited way. No endless thread about beer. That has to go into e-mail.
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