Author: Albert Silver
Date: 11:59:25 01/14/00
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On January 14, 2000 at 13:48:42, Thorsten Czub wrote:
>On January 14, 2000 at 11:37:03, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>I never said he was unproductive, I said these threads he started are
>>unproductive. You announced his new forum and I went there and saw the
>>predominant theme: CCC sucks! Hardly an auspicious beginning if it's all about
>>computer chess and NOT about CCC.
>
>IMO CCC or an opinion from a founder of ccc IS about computerchess.
>What else is it ??
It is about a forum.
>
>
>>I agree. He started the forum and can write what he pleases, but doing so he
>>also sets the tone. I saw the tone, and it looked like it was an excuse to
>>gather an audience to hear him rant about CCC. I dearly hope I'm wrong, but this
>>is what I was greeted with, and these were the conclusions it led me to.
>
>we will see how it develops. its easy to say you see REASONS
>when only a few people (me and chris) have posted so far
>and there is not much traffic. there have to be some beginning
>posts.
>so - i guess the TONE as you call it will change automatically.
>
>so as the tone in rgcc has changed. :-)
>
>
>>So the answer is to wait for others to write about computer chess?
>
>The answer is to wait to give it a chance.
>what you do is critics on first impression.
>give it a chance in a few weeks.
>thanks.
>
>>*sigh* If this is just some pissing contest, count me out. When I am civil with
>>someone, I expect that courtesy to be reciprocal.
>
>:-)))
>
>you wanted it :-)) now you got it clear to you...
My hope was that it would be clear to you. My post wasn't against Chris (why on
earth would I have anything against Chris?), but rather an appeal to his
compassion for others and to himself to not dwell on the bad blood of the past.
This appeal was based on the threads he initiated clearly showing his inability
to do so as yet. It was _not_ a flame.
Albert Silver
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