Author: Albert Silver
Date: 15:18:55 12/25/04
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>>As far as I understood, the complaint wasn't of the download links, but of
>>accessing and hacking the site.
>
>If this is the case forbiding arena links in the winboard forum is not
>productive to save the winboard forum.
>
>I also fail to see how it is productive to ban the arena team even if their
>complain is not justified.
>
>I am not for closing the winboard forum and I will be happy to read some post
>that explain how the steps that volker did can help to save the winboard forum.
>
>
>
>Note that I decided even not to try to join the arena forum not because the fact
>that they asked personal details but because of what I read about the way that
>they treat other people.
>
>The last forum was closed after a lot of personal attacks.
>Later it seems to me that there are people that they simply hate regardless of
>what they do.
>
>I remember a post that said to peter skinner that they will not give him the
>right to host arena in his site in a million years when they give it to other
>people.
>
>They have the right to do it but it seems to me an hate decleration and it gives
>the impression that peter skinner did something unforgivable.
>
>There are extreme cases of crimes that no money will be enough to compensate for
>them but if somebody did not do a crime like that I see no reason to say some
>message that means "we always hate you regardless of what you do".
>
>Even stealing is something that I can forgive(at least in case that I believe
>that the thief is really sorry for his actions and pay enough money to give back
>more than what he stole without trying to escape the agreed punishment of the
>law for his actions).
>
>Uri
You are correct on the arbitrariness of the Arena decisions regarding
membership, as I am persona non grata there for no good reason. At first I
thought it was some form of error, so I drew Christopher's attention to it in
CCC a number of times, but now it is clearly a deliberate act, and I sincerely
believe it is due to a degree of megalomania.
I don't wish them poorly though, since at the very worse, Martin Blume deserves
full credit for his wonderful interface, but the whole structure surrounding it,
meaning the site and above all the extreme paranoia, is a real shame.
Albert
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