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Subject: Re: what is a reasonable donation; how much do posts cost

Author: Pedro Gomes

Date: 04:44:37 02/13/06

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On February 13, 2006 at 05:57:27, Rolf Tueschen wrote:

>On February 13, 2006 at 05:45:08, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote:
>
>>One of the arguments about posting so much about rybka is that it costs too much
>>money.
>>
>>I would like to make a donation to offset the costs of any of my posts. How much
>>does it cost per, say 100 words. What is a reasonable donation? or maybe a
>>better way to ask this is, "how much would the average poster cost per year in
>>posts?"
>>
>>By the way, I really don't think the flood of rybka posts is really hurting
>>anybody. It is not hard to ignore such threads. If people want to talk
>>programing, then who is stoping them? If people want to find programing threads,
>>it is not hard to scroll through and find them.
>>
>>And, importantly, rybka is what many people are interested in. It plays some
>>beautiful chess. Why deny people this small joy of talking about it?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>best
>>Joseph
>
>
>You are completely missing the point. Nobody wants to miss the topics with
>Rybka. But Vas shouldnt be the only one who makes a financial profit while
>misusing the forum CCC for free. And this is something Vas should negotiate with
>Steve via email. Pete just made the conflict public. Normally Vas is violating ยง
>4 of the charter. Most visibly in his posting where he expected feedback for the
>future marketing and selling of Rybka. That was enough. Also IMO.



Finally, you are right in a topic about Rybka.
Beeter late than never.

HFP



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