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Subject: Re: The mystery of SSDF

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 08:05:13 09/16/04

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On September 16, 2004 at 11:01:13, Tony Hedlund wrote:

>On September 16, 2004 at 09:12:43, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On September 16, 2004 at 04:14:20, Tony Hedlund wrote:
>>
>>>On September 15, 2004 at 13:29:02, Jouni Uski wrote:
>>>
>>>>This is getting quite mysterous! Has anybody got contact with them lately?
>>>>Has there been nuclear blast in Sweden? I think we have noticed that here in
>>>>Finland. SSDF persons - please inform us. If testing is ended then publish final
>>>>rating list. If testing continues may be You can arrange CCC type donation
>>>>system for financing.
>>>>
>>>>Jouni
>>>
>>>I don't think we have ended our testing. We have taken a break during the
>>>summer, mostly due to lack of programs to test. But it have been quite nice to
>>>have time to do something else for a change. For instance looking at european
>>>championship in football, the olympic games and World Cup of icehockey. And have
>>>time myself to actually play chess! And I've started to play scrubble on the
>>>net, it's great! Let's see if the testers want to start up the testing again. We
>>>probably will.
>>>
>>>Best
>>>Tony
>>
>>You guys are alive! You know, we (as in the computer chess community) had a
>>guestbook up screaming support for the SSDF when it was feared that the SSDF was
>>in jeopardy.
>>
>
>Yes. I know. But what was the point with it when nobody gave us the link.
>
>Tony

The problem was that about 1 day after it had been put up, someone decided to
attack the site with D.O.S. attacks making the site and the guestbook completely
inaccessible, so there was no way to receive signatures, much less share the
support you had received.

                                         Albert



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