Somehow the latest postings in this thread have recycled things that were posted previously...
Whittington's email:
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Chris Whittington wrote:the obvious person to validate the email (which you could have done in the first place of course) is Ed Schroeder with whom I have been in email contact using this email for several years now. Since Ed suggested me "taking a look here" and he has been in contact with Hyatt (at least) concerning the very slow and actually quite rude process, you might think it hardly even necessary to ask him, but of course, depending on paranoia level, you may also not believe him as real, even though he and I have been famously in computer chess since about 1980.
Hyatt additionally has been in occasional email contact with this address principally at the time I first modded CCC. He usually claims total storage of everything, does he not?
In what sense do you and the unknown HW think you can make time wasting humiliations in this way? Not a very good start imo.
And no, please do not track my ISP, the talkchess capability of giving immediate IP access/knowledge to mods is one reason I never log in there. Read Jeremy Bernstein's account of behaviour between the "mods" Conkie, Banks and various malicious endusers relating to IP addresses and telephone numbers, for just one example - all done with full knowledge of talkchess and the tcadmin. The danger is not from us humble readers but from site owners/administrators and the occasional little hitler tendency of "mods".
Lefler's subsequent post (including his email response):
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Mark Lefler wrote:Within a day I sent this email to Chris, offering to let him be on the panel, provided he would be more polite. But Chris never responded to this offer. Please also note I offered to call him on a land line (and some people scanned in ID cards to prove identity), but he never responded to these offers either.
Email from MarkL to ChrisW wrote:
Chris,
I do not know what to say. I do not think we have been in any way "rude" to you. Yes, the approval process has been slow for you and others we do not know well. But since we have several examples of people falsely claiming to be others and in the process stealing source code, requesting extra information is totally reasonable. If anything, you have been rude. Just look at the snarky writing below! "wasting humiliation"? "occasional little hilter"? Do you really think acting like this is in your best interest?
David Levy and Harvey felt we should approve you. I have been waiting on Bob Hyatt's decision. I was going to approve you as well, but the histrionics of your emails and sheer paranoia suggest I should not decide in your favor. We need professional, reliable people on the panel. Are you willing to change and be more polite to serve there?
Perhaps one new thing to note is that MarkL actually offered to make the call himself, whereas Rajlich only offered ("invited" is Schröder's recent word) that Levy should call him (before 1400 European time on weekdays)..
I might also note that Feb 25, 2011 was a Friday, and the 28th a Monday. I have no idea how many people the Secretariat were concurrently trying to certify. The Panel was "Organized" [wikispaces term] on the 22nd, the first approvals seem to be on the 24th:
Uniacke, Isenberg, Letouzey, Wegner, Romstad, Roberson, Pijl, Watkins, SMK, Schröder, Krabbenbos; 25th - van Kervinck, Ban, Mayer, Pronk; 26th - Horvath; 27th - Dailey, Deville, Vida; March 1st - Szmit, Schäfer. NB: The dates might be slightly shifed, as the reference time of day might be local to my Wikispaces preferences.