Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 16:13:27 07/23/99
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On July 23, 1999 at 16:13:51, jonathon smith wrote:
>On July 23, 1999 at 15:45:15, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>
>>On July 23, 1999 at 15:25:03, Bo Persson wrote:
>>
>>>I'm obviously in the wrong time zone...
>>>
>>>When I get here today, the longest thread is about who is moderating the
>>>moderators. Unbelievable! Have you ever seen such a meta discussion before??
>>>
>>>If I say some thing indescent ("intercourse"), can I have all of this thread
>>>deleted so we can get back to computer chess, please?
>>>
>>>Now that we've obviously lost both r.g.c.c and ccc, where do we continue ?
>>
>>This will blow over and we'll be back to normal eventually. That's the way it
>>works here. In r.g.c.c. it never blows over.
>
>Which is where you are wrong.
>
>Your normal is a kind of binary insanity.
>
>Into which reality keeps poking its annoying head.
>
>Attempts to make binary on-topic. And scales of grey, and heaven forbid, colour,
>off-topic, represent the rejection of life, done by those escaping from
>personality and psychological defects. Or robots as they might be called.
>
Or perhaps it represents lots of people with busy lives who want a place
where they can focus on computer chess, without being distracted by stupid
jokes. Bandwidth is precious.
>Fernando represents enthusiasts who wish to use their hobby, computer chess, to
>make relationships - whether about jazz, sex, Serbia, other peoples problems,
>daughters, hospitality or anything you care to imagine.
>
>Bruce represents a binary world, with if-then rules. Preferably as the CPU rule
>management system. And without relationships. Other than with identical clones.
>
This seems to be a rather binary way of categorizing people, Chris.
>Blow over ? You think so ?
>
Yep. This is an *excellent* forum. We occasionally have distractions, but
it simply works. Even our distractions are, for the most part, discussed
in an appropriate and adult manner.
Andrew Williams
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