Author: Jonas Bylund
Date: 23:11:29 09/07/04
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On September 08, 2004 at 01:52:31, Lin Harper wrote: > The two groups exist in parallel, and have done for some years now. When it >came to light that we should all help pick up the tab for the maintaining of the >server, a certain amount of ill will set in, at least for a few people. > A couple of guys on CCC inferred that to make a donation would be to show >support for CTF, a forum they don't like because of the perceived mood and lack >of manners of a lot of CTF posters. > CTF members generally have at least a passing interest in computer chess too. >Most of them have several chess playing programs. It's a safe bet they read CCC, >even if they rarely post. And being established as friends on CTF, they fire >broadsides at each other in the knowledge that there is generally no lasting ill >will. If you would care to start dropping into CTF regularly and joining in a >bit, you may even start enjoying the good natured atmosphere. > We are really just parts 'a' and 'b' of the same group. If either group were >to disappear, the administrative cost would be virtually unchanged, so it's not >a matter of one group subsidising the other. > best regards > Lin Harper During this debate i have frequently read the CTF forum to be sure if it was as bad as i remembered it and i found it to be even worse... I see no friendly atmosphere other than a couple of nice guys from the CCC forum once in a while joking with eachother, but besides from that it is a horrible place IMO. I don't see how them having a passing interest in computer chess have anything to with CTF as computer chess is virtually never discussed there and having a chessprogram does not qualify in my book as being on topic :) "A couple of guys on CCC inferred that to make a donation would be to show support for CTF" i wouldn't say it was "a couple of guys" i got the impression that a lot of guys from the CCC forum felt that way. To me it is not a question of saving money to drop CTF, it is a question of princibles, i find that place to be bad and i don't want to donate to a forum that is associated with it.
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