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Subject: Re: MOD: Tone it down please...this post is not admissible as evidence.

Author: Steve

Date: 19:39:40 12/17/99

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On December 17, 1999 at 06:04:27, robert michelena wrote:

>Jerome, as a third year law student, I was only pointing out what to me is self
>evident; these assertions that the player on the other end of the internet
>connection used brain power to defeat a program would not be admissible in any
>court of law as valid evidence.  We call it hearsay.
>
>Until someone post proof that an "average player" (non master strength; national
>master and international master and above ) defeated a program over the board
>without aid from any source, I deem all assertions as suspect at best.
>
>As for the communist dialectic, it seems to me that I am the victim of those
>exhibiting fanatical "party directed" zeal.

It's a free country, and if you want to make obnoxious, unsupported assertions,
go right ahead.  But, speaking as a practicing attorney, I ask that you at least
refrain from identifying yourself as a potential member of the profession.  We
have enough image problems already.



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