Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 11:41:25 01/30/00
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On January 30, 2000 at 06:30:21, jonathon smith wrote: >Now ChrisW happens to know the answer to Bruce's position on this. Bruce wrote, >at the time of the start of the board: "CCC should be to discuss computer chess. >The Komputer can stay on rgcc and answer pesky end-users queries there". ChrisW >quotes this from memory, but the content and sentiments are accurate. I didn't attempt to verify your quote, but I do remember that Bruce once wrote that tech support questions were on topic here (influenced by Steve, IIRC.) You can dig up any old quotes you like, but consider checking with someone if it's been a while -- they may have changed their mind. >b) To further probe Bruce's Manichaean weakness. Which is that he favours those >who he has defined as the 'good guys'. This accusation is made most often in >relation to Bruce's alleged protection of Hyatt. In the world of fast moving and >disappearing posts all that remains is the impression. >It is known that Stephan Meyer-Kahlen tends not to post, especially not in such >a case as Curtiss's. It is also known that Bruce thinks Meyer-Kahlen is one of >the good guys. Therefore a mindlessly stupid attack on the Meyer-Kahlen program >is likely to bring Bruce out in some sort of defence. Bruce is aware of the >charges of favouritism, therefore the Curtiss posts are/were designed to place >Bruce in a difficult position, increase his stress level slightly, to try and >provoke a mistake. And to try and further strengthen the 'impression' of >favouritism via the predictable Bruce response. Bruce provided the reason it was deleted. Judging from the other responses, most people are willing to take what Bruce said at face value. (If you choose to not believe his reason, that's up to you.) Dave
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