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Subject: Re: MOD: Let's keep it friendly please...

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 17:48:32 12/29/99

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On December 29, 1999 at 19:26:22, pete wrote:

>>What I hope for is that all of us can deal with the others in a civilized way.
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>>0.  Poster one calls poster two a "stupid noo-noo head."
>>1.  Poster three calls poster one a "poo-poo brain."
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>>But perhaps both can be served if we act in a dignified manner and treat all
>>posters (especially those we disagree with) with respect
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>Now I am a little surprised ; I dealt with this in moderator email as I thought
>this was the appropriate way only to find out now that it even got worse in the
>meantime in public .
>
>So I see myself accused of not behaving "in a cicilized way" , calling someone "
>a "poo-poo brain" " and not treating all posters with respect ...

I did not accuse anyone of anything.
*Sigh*
It was supposed to be an example of what can happen.


>Well , I re-read my original post that to some extent is unnecessarily
>unfriendly and shouldn't have been posted anyway but this is still a little too
>much : am I competent to judge about the knowledge of a 1800 player compared to
>a 1500 player ? Well I see several quite reasonable arguments why I am .
>
>Again : I wouldn't have the slightest problem if a post of mine would have been
>deleted for moderation purposes , but if you critizise me in public it should be
>able to explain without feeling like a whiner which to some extent isn't true
>now .
>
>Still the on-topic part remains IMHO : I think it is better to limit myself to
>the most easy and non-controversial part here ; as rebel seems to be one of the
>programs with better positional understanding it is simply insane to assume that
>the programmer has a positional understanding of a 1500 player ; maybe I will
>fall down on my knees in front of mr diepeveen if I see the first game of Diep
>against Century which prooves me wrong.



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