From: "Matt Nemmers"
Date: 22/07/03 04:05 GMT Daylight Time
Message-id: WR1Ta.117930$H17.36226@sccrnsc02
"Eric Hicks" wrote in message
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I thought this was the chess board.
I vote we keep politics off this board since there is plenty to go
around on the other politics group.
I think United States chess politics sucks, and that is why the USCF is
in such bad position, and why the United States remains "the sleeping
giant" in the chess scene (a Kasparov quote).
Reading this group with all the sleazy politics and people inbattling
each other, reminds me on why US Chess depresses me.
Free enterprise will eventually take over in Untited States Chess...the
USCF will eventually step aside..and this group shows enough reasons
why....
Lets keep politics to politics and let this group be the Chess group
where we speak about chess.
That is my vote.
We have to many patzers when it comes to chess politics.
..x
You're right, in a sense; however, this is rec.games.chess.misc
(miscellaneous), so anything related to chess is fair game on this forum and
not considered "cross-posted" or off-topic.
Regards,
Matt
A little while ago, a new poster calling himself (or, possibly, herself) "A
Bird You See, A Very Nice Bird" posted the following debut message to this
group:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y1FB12855
This message was also posted to the other RGC* groups but it was *not*
*crossposted* - that is, "A Bird...", being unsure about which group might be
the most appropriate, had gone to the not inconsiderable trouble of posting to
each group *separately*.
Now, it's clear to me that RGCP issues should remain in RGCP *only*. When they
don't, they can lead, eventually, to the likes of Timothy Hanke starting *flame
wars*, by *deliberately* CROSSPOSTING blatant lies about an innocent
individual, as he
http://makeashorterlink.com/?H1A123555
In other words, I respectfully disagree with you, Matt, and with Timothy Hanke,
too...
Crossposting is *never* justified, even if (as is often the case) a topic is
appropriate to more than one group.
Best
Mark