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Subject: Re: The Haves vs. the Have-Nots or How I Learned to Detest Wannabes

Author: David H. McClain

Date: 08:08:52 09/09/04

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On September 09, 2004 at 09:58:09, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>
>Personally, I'd favor a board that is programmer's only. To get
>in, you have to have created a program *** from scratch ***
>and be willing to talk about it and help otherr programmers
>as well.
>
>I think there are a lot of onlookers here and while I enjoy that
>they get impressed by chess programs I don't like the fact that
>they are heightening the bandwidth requirements and will ultimately
>put it out of business.
>
>If ICD keeps anything, keep two boards: one you can keep and which
>isn't a bandwidth load: CTF, however horrid and rabid it may be at
>times, and the other, a pure programmer's board -- no wannabe's.
>

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Stuart,

I think your list of qualified participants will be very short, not enough to
support an elite forum.  I'm not a programmer, don't want to be, perhaps that
excludes me as a wannabee.  However, I am here to learn how to use what I have
more efficiently, not through programming, but through the program's parameters.

With all the programs that use part of Crafty's code, your list may be even
shorter than you think because they would not qualify as "written from scratch."

DHM



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