Author: Eelco de Groot
Date: 02:06:06 11/27/99
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Guys, girls, I would much rather that we could end this thread. Uri, everybody, there is no real doubt in my mind mind that Bella is/was Chris Whittington. I still see this as defensible as a symbolical thing. Everything Chris would write would be read in the context of his past actions which I understand were not much of a success here. So I see that more like, this is possibly Chris but judge me by what I do and say now, not on what has gone before. Part of as much of a fresh start as possible. So I was hoping some of us would want to go along with that a little and I think most did. It would not be the first time that somebody used an alias and that does not have to be a problem in itself. I have not read any of the removed posts of Bella nor any of the insulting e-mails. I regret these and many of the still standing inflammatory posts and appreciate everybody's efforts in this matter. We can have long discussions about whether any of Bella's observations about our community were just meant to make us come out or something, thinking we and more specifically "fellow" programmers were not seriously wanting to listen or discuss anymore. Many of her posts were coloured that way I think. Bella was not showing a very optimistic view of the world and that I find the most important thing about this whole matter. Can we afford to ignore that? I kind of feared *for* Bella and I still do I suppose.. I don't particularly look forward to another "Moderation: Insults" thread, but want to defend that banning somebody permanently is a worse punishment for some than for others. I think there are extenuating circumstances in Chris' case. I don't really see what can be said against the postulation of a form of dark matter even if we don't know what it is? That is just a label for something that seems to exert a gravitational effect. What little that I know of it is that the jury is still out on whether there can be found a particular Big Bang theory, inflationary or not, to describe the observations. Too soon to tell in my opinion. Fascinating subject. Wish I had the math skills to follow any of the formulas involved... I would much rather discuss this here than anything Chris is or isn't doing at the moment, moderators. I hope Chris has found some inspiration for the moment and some new ideas to work on computer-chess or on his Shogi program. I wish him well. Regards,Eelco
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