Winboard Forum

After many years I have decided now to run this forum alone.

Roger and Richard are not Admins in this forum any longer. Thanks to both of them for their long-term cooperation.

It seems to me there is a decreasing interest in forums like this. In addition there are several mods installed which make administration almost automatically. Therefore it is not necessary to occupy three people with that.

Thanks again to both of them.

Volker

Yes - well done to both Roger and Richard!

Hello Volker,

Thanks for the patience with my style of doing things.

I (almost) felt guilty for collecting a pay cheque each month....

Volker? Pay cheque?

Yeah right!



Richard and Volker are two really fantastic persons to work with.

Graham, thanks for the kind words but the excellence of the membership here has made moderating this forum practically unnecessary.

Say, as one out of work mod to another soon retired mod, what say we start our own ex-moderator computerchess posting?



I need sleep.

Later.

Roger Brown wrote:Say, as one out of work mod to another soon retired mod, what say we start our own ex-moderator computerchess posting?

The stories we could tell!

I've been glad to be of some help. Compared to my previous moderator job in CCC this was an easy ride as Roger and Volker usually spotted and removed the crap even before I even saw it. My contributions have been limited to activate newly registered users and give my opinion now and then in the mod forum.

And because of those discussions I now know that running a forum is a bit more than just cancel messages now and then, like keeping the software up to date, backups, install the right forum modifications, deal with providers, attackers and the tireless spambots that register countless of useless user ids. Despite the fact that three people were listed as moderators, it was really Volker who took care of all of the above.

Volker: A big thanks for providing this service to the computer chess freaks for all of the past years!

Richard.

My big thanks also to Roger and Richard and of course
to Volker himself for this great forum!
I hope it will be revitalised again, as the interest seems
to have lowered in the last months.

Best regards,
Guenther