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In article <MPG.1685e584d709d9d698989b@news.cyburban.com>, Alberich wrote:
> Hey, Tim...my ISP doesn't carry the gnu.chess newsgroup so I never got to 
> hear your take on my suggestions for the future version of Winboard.

You can read any groups that your ISP doesn't carry on
http://groups.google.com.  See there for the reply I wrote.

> And by the way, what exactly DID you think of those suggestions? I 
> personally thought they're workable.

Most of them were fine ideas that have often been suggested before.
The only one I haven't seen before is the ability to have multiple PGN
indexes open at once.  As I explained at more length in my other
message, I'm no longer interested enough in the project to jump in and
implement things that other people suggest but that I wouldn't use
myself.  The only part that I'm really interested in spending my time
improving in the forseeable future is the engine communication
protocol.  WinBoard is free, open source software, so people who want
additional features should feel free to implement them and donate the
code.

> Multiple PGN index file opening from 
> a database, for instance would be FANTASTIC. That would be a very nice 
> New Year surprise. Coding that into Winboard shouldn't take too long. Of 
> that I'm certain.

Once upon a time there was a community of mice who were troubled by a
cat.  One smart mouse spoke to the mayor of the community and
suggested that the mayor have a bell put on the cat to warn the mice
of its arrival.  He said this would a simple task and would not take
too long.  The mayor and the town council all praised this wonderful
idea, and they met to appoint a small committee to carry out the task.
Guess what: the mouse that suggested the idea was the sole member of
the committee.

This actually isn't a very good analogy, but I like the story anyway.  :-)

Merry Christmas,
-- 
Tim Mann  usenet@tim-mann.org  http://www.tim-mann.org/