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Subject: Re: The mystery of SSDF

Author: Joseph Merolle

Date: 12:07:40 09/16/04

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On September 16, 2004 at 14:22:53, Peter Skinner wrote:

>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




Let these guys have a break untill some new programs come out whats the point of
seeing the same results for yet a 3 time. Enjoy the vacation and thanks for the
hard work guys.



Regards JAMerolle



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