My $0.02

• From: shamsoftabriz
• Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 19:52:51 -0700
• Message-ID: <000SFD203.00070D734.12170551-quizbowl_at_...>

Those of you that think that Rob's running the QB
mailing list from a different domain has any relevance
whatsoever are making something out of nothing. And if you
really think that this is the same as CBCI running the
list, you're looney.
Here's my $0.02 on this whole
thing.

1. Rob has never, to anyone's knowledge, unjustly
"censored" any of CBI's or anyone elses messages to the
mailing list. If he had, I guaratee you we would have
HEARD about it from the aggrieved party in a loud and
whiney voice.

2. CBI does, if I remember
correctly, have some kind of bulletin board on their site
that can be posted on, but so far as I could tell
(this was like, a year ago)it was moderated and seemed
more or less a "CBI happy-place" in my mind in the
most saractic sense of the term "CBI happy place" that
you can imagine me opining ;-)

3. Personally,
I find it absolutely hysterical that CBI will have
to send posts to the general community to the NAQT
domain. It's like the Israeli government being forced to
send official announcements to palestine.gov
;-)

4. I think the success of NAQT is linked to the fact
that it is run, and that it continues to be run, by
former players who are in touch with the QB community,
and who beleive in serving that community because
they "love the game" rather than that they are
obsessed with being the only game in town or that they
desperately want to create a monopoly/cash cow. 

4.
Rob does this, so far as I know, as a kind of public
service. And major announcements appear here, as well as
the mailing list anyway, so if you don't like it, you
can unsubscibe from the qb-list if it annoys you THAT
much.

- Guy