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Subject: Re: About CTF Preservation or Extinction

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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