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- From: cust_ts@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tero Sand)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.go
- Subject: Re: SOS! IGS is in dangeous.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.123556.22154@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 12:35:56 GMT
- References: <1k50kdINNd9p@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <1k56t6INNc1p@shelley.u.washington.edu> <1993Jan27.120831.18264@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- In article <1993Jan27.120831.18264@klaava.Helsinki.FI> olounela@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Olli Lounela) writes:
- >stupid... I begin to wonder just when are we going to see the end of
- >people who presume to know what *other* people want... never, I guess.
-
- Yup, never - it's a fact of life that we (eh, whoever, ifever, manages
- the server) have to come to grips with - it won't go away.
-
- A rather dim view of people, but that's life. To soften things a bit,
- I'd like to believe it's a small minority.
-
- >I really think that the IGS is a Good Thing,
-
- YES!
-
- that it helps promote go in
- >the Western World (and in the Eastern, too), that it improves the skill
- >of the players (and onlookers) attending, and that it actually is just
- >about the only real chance to play for *LOTS* of people!
-
- E.g. me. Before the server I managed to play about 3-5 games in two
- months - now I can get a game whenever I want, which sometimes comes to
- several per day.
-
- >I do and will consider the act of running/improving the IGS a generous
- >thing, for actually it must be very costly in terms of time and effort!
- >I count it in the same category as keeping the go archive (thanks,
- >Adrian!), which also must be time consuming.
-
- Thanks to all server programmers & managers, all client writers, and
- Olli Lounela also for commenting games.
-
- >However much I dislike increasing the workload, registration might be
- >the thing to do.
-
- I second this, and to comment further, to remove registration swiftly
- for all abuses*.
-
- * One should view telnetting without the 6969 kindly though, unless it
- repeats: I myself made that mistake often when my client broke down
- during the change in the server.
-
- >
- >My apologies to anyone who has nothing to do with this this sad, sad,
- >sad affair and thinks this post not quite proper. This post is my first
- >ever that can really be called a flame, and truly this affair has made
- >me ***_VERY_*** angry indeed. It's the very first time in *years* I've
- >really been angry.
-
- Actually, I wouldn't have been quite so kind.
-
- >
- >I would include several smileys, but in the context that seems improper.
- >
-
- Quite inappropriate.
-
- Tero Sand, 2 kyu
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