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- From: mdobbins@asns.tredydev.Unisys.COM (Michael Dobbins)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.go
- Subject: Re: Internet Go Server Status.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.172113.21925@asns.tredydev.Unisys.COM>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 17:21:13 GMT
- References: <1jcppvINNaft@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1993Jan20.014619.5816@adobe.com> <1jk79mINNeh8@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Organization: Unisys Corporation, Tredyffrin, PA
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- In article <1jk79mINNeh8@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan Cano) writes:
- >tcasey@adobe.com (Tim Casey) writes:
- >>Once a player has a rating in the system, that rating stays with that
- >>player for a long time. I have not decided how long yet.
- >
- >I don't understand. Shouldn't the rating stay with the player
- >forever? Isn't this what happens in the USCF and AGA? There a rating
- >stays with a person for life (and changes ...). How would a rating
- >not stay with a player?
-
- It is easy to get rid of an old rating; login as a new name! Since the
- IGS flushes logins that have been inactive for more than a month, you
- can go back to the old name after a bit more than a month. Am I wrong,
- Tim?
-