From: Pieter Stouten <pieter.stouten <at> DUPONTMERCK <dot> COM>
Date: 1 may 1998
Subject: Non-shogi related posts

Dear shogi fans,

It is my considered opinion that we have had more than enough non-shogi
related mails recently. Some people have expressed the opinion that Sam
Sloan's posting asking for measurements was inappropriate. I assumed his
request for measurements was partially tongue-in-cheek. Even if it was not,
there is a large grey area of what, with a little stretch of the
imagination, one could consider shogi-related. In my opinion his posting
fell in that category.

However, I do take issue with is the subsequent flurry of responses
(calling his page tasteless, doubting the number of hits he claims his
pages have received). Although I do not deny anybody to have their own
opinion and although their concerns may have been entirely legitimate, the
responses were less shogi-related than Sam's original post and do not
belong on SHOGI-L. Postings to SHOGI-L should meet two conditions: 1) they
should be shogi-related, and 2) they should not be ad-hominem attacks.

If you take issue with a posting to SHOGI-L, you can always bring it up
with the original sender, with me or with both. In the past people have
expressed concerns and I have acted on them, contacted the original sender
and mostly that resolved the issue.

On a slightly related note, may I ask all of you to post plain-text
messages only (i.e., no HTML, enriched text or JIS-encoding)?

Thank you for your cooperation,

Pieter Stouten, SHOGI-L owner
pieter.stouten <at> dupontmerck <dot> com