Author: Micheal Cummings
Date: 01:22:09 08/26/99
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On August 26, 1999 at 02:54:25, Bruce Moreland wrote: > >On August 25, 1999 at 21:31:19, Timothy J. Frohlick wrote: > >>I really don't think that it is a good idea to post ads for products for sale at >>this site since the bylaws of this club admonish us to avoid "frank commercial >>exhortations". This may be OK for rgcc but I for one do not like it here. >> >>Steve Schwartz is in business to sell chess and computer chess products. CCC is >>"his" baby and we should respect this. The purpose of this club is to foster >>interest in and developement of computer chess--it is not to make money off of >>programs that no longer interest us. > >The exact words are "flagrant commercial exhortations". "Exhortation" is a very >interesting word in this case. If someone says "for sale: one chicken", that is >not an exhortation. If someone goes on and on at length about how great this >chicken is, it's the best chicken, it's the last chicken you'll need, and does >it all using a lot of caps and exclamation points, to me that is a flagrant >exhortation. > >I think that the intent is to allow people to use CCC as a way to announce >products, but not to allow them to announce the same product every day. I don't >think any attempt was made to define the limits people could go to to sell their >used software. > >There hasn't been a lot of flea-market stuff like this here ever, much less >recently. I suggest that we wait and see if it gets out of hand before deciding >that it is a problem. > >I wish he'd kept it to one post though. > >bruce I agree, maybe what could be good for this place is a classified ads section for used computer chess software or hardware. Maybe a few bucks could be paid to steve to advertise or it maybe free to post an add. But a seperate section could be useful for people wanting to get rid of their computer chess stuff. I am sure there are many people here who have things they would like to sell and get rid of, and I am sure that their are people who would but this stuff. I do not think it would affect steves business if someone wanted to sell a used program at a reduced price.
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