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Subject: Re: DB will never play with REBEL, where the 'letter' came from.

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:46:15 10/12/99

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On October 12, 1999 at 16:22:15, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>To find out about this supposed letter written to Rebel (Ed), I simply asked
>Hsu what happened.
>
>Frederic Friedel (not sure that is spelled right) wrote a personal email to
>Hsu asking about the "deep blue junior" machine at the WCCC this year,
>probably after reading my explanation of how the machine was 'limited'
>here on CCC.
>
>Hsu sent FF a personal email reply explaining exactly the same details
>that I had given here.  FF then took that personal email and posted it on the
>Gambitsoft site, apparently, and the snowball began.
>
>Hsu nor Murry care beans about what the Rebel advertisements say, as they
>assume that everyone that 'counts' has already read a factual description of
>what was in Paderborn playing demo games.  So the accusations directed toward
>the DB team for "calling Ed a Liar" ought to be directed at ChessBase, where
>the email was posted.  It is generally considered good net ettiquette to not
>post personal email without permission.
>
>Apparently that isn't known by everyone...

It's not just good nettiquette, but it is actually illegal (at least in the US
-- not sure about elsewhere) to post private email without the sender's
permission.  The sender has copyright on their expressions [with or without an
explicit (C) Copyright notice].

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