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Subject: Re: The mystery of SSDF

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 11:22:53 09/16/04

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On September 16, 2004 at 11:05:13, Albert Silver wrote:

>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


The book is still up for signatures:

http://www.crafty-chess.com/ssdf

There are still people adding to it as well. I recieved a message this morning
that someone had added to it.

Peter



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