Author: Daniel Jackson
Date: 06:56:05 09/07/04
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On September 07, 2004 at 08:44:35, Steve B wrote: > >>Respect the second issue, I am in real sorrow to discover that some friends of >>mine, as John Merlino and Steven Blincoe, has fallen in the same temptation of >>other people that interest me less o nothing, many of them, by the way, just new >>members with few or none experience about what this site means. > > >the objection to CTF came about only after the need for members to make a >donation to keep the CCC arose >if we now must pay then i objected to supporting the CTF for all of the reasons >i gave in many many posts >to be fair my freind,you must read the posting from the start(perhaps 2 weeks >ago).once it became clear that NO donations of CCC members will go towards >maintaining CTF then for me the issue became a dead one > >this does not mean that i approve of the CTF in its current state >nor does it mean that i even want the CTF to be linked with the CCC >I DO NOT > > >although i only discovered the CCC and CTF about 2 years ago,from what i have >learned about the begginning of the CTF it is nowhere near the same any longer >the early begginning of the CTF was to be a place for members of CCC to discuss >other topics aside from chess computers,but this is not now the case >most members from the CCC do not post on the CTF and Vice Versa >the vast majority of the threads on the CTF i find objectionable,and you know >this from a while ago when i resgined there and posted my reasons >the board must be more reasonably moderated.rascist posts must be deleted >posts of hate against jews,african americans ,gays,etc,tc.have no place on the >CTF and should not remain undeleted > > >you should also know i send in my donation BEFORE i knew for certain if the meny >would be used to support both boards >even though i did not want one penny of my money to go towards the CTF it was >more important to me to keep the CCC going under ICD'S most capable hands ,even >if it meant keeping the CTF >it was only AFTER i made my donation ,did the membership learn that a single >member made a donation large enough to pay for the CTF on its own. > >Regards >Steve > > > Why would one person pick up the tab for the CTF? I can think of some reasons, but not many good ones. A good reason I suppose is to take the burden off CCC members. I find that possibility unlikely.....
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