Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:34:17 11/06/99
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On November 06, 1999 at 18:30:47, Marc Plum wrote: >Are you sorry yet that you took this job? Everything good has a cost. This is probably the best place on earth to learn about chess programming. All the top experts in the world converge here to give me free lessons (or is that lesions?) ;-) I did not want to do it and still feel that others would have been better qualified. However, to shirk responsibility is counter productive. If no one is willing to do the work, then the work won't get done. Look at news:rec.games.chess.computers as an example of what happens when chaos reigns. It had started to settle down, and now some net terrorists are back. Free speech is fine, and if people want to gather together at news:alt.flame and scream eptithets for hours on end, that is fine. But a moderated newsgroup is a social attempt at order and discipline and harmony. Three worthwhile goals. It would be nice if everyone would just be sensible. But look at the world at large. Since there are so many strange things going on, it is only natural that there will be a reflection of that here. Further, I don't think that we should try to moderate everything to the nth degree. Such an environment is dull and sterile. Anyway, my answer is no. I don't mind so much taking a hand at moderation. I do hope that someone more qualified steps forward next time, though.
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