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- From: jonathan@cats.ucsc.edu (Jonathan Cano)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.go
- Subject: Re: Internet Go Server Status.
- Message-ID: <1jo4uaINNlmt@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 06:41:14 GMT
- References: <1jcppvINNaft@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1993Jan20.014619.5816@adobe.com> <1jk79mINNeh8@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1993Jan21.172113.21925@asns.tredydev.Unisys.COM>
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- mdobbins@asns.tredydev.Unisys.COM (Michael Dobbins) writes:
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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.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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- >>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?
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- >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?
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- Logging in under a new name is the obvious way to get a new rating ...
- I thought Tim was saying (at the marked area above) that he hadn't
- decided how long a rating should stay with a player who wasn't trying to
- 'dodge' the system *and* who was consistently active. Tim has
- _already_ decided how long to keep inactive accounts around ...
-
- --Jonathan
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