Kristjan,
Mostly nonsense, so let’s deal with a few facts.
1. It is none of your business if postings in this group between members relate to non-members or their work output. Absolutely none. You may certainly comment on it, as any member may, but you have no authority to copy specific information to people outside the group without permission. You didn’t even have the courtesy to let the originator know what you were doing.
2. As a matter of interest did you copy Cig6o’s statements, or even your own, to George Dean for comment? There were some quite strong statements made in the same thread about serious faults in his book. Could you let us see your outgoing message to him?
3. The posting you decided to interfere with was one between Chesspurr and Cig60. This was not the first communication in this thread between these two members, so quite why you decided to interfere I have no idea. Cig60 is a senior member of the chess community and the official CCI reviewer of Alan F’s book, so I would imagine he is more than capable of asking Alan for clarification, if needed. I don’t think he needs amateur assistance.
4. You did not go privately or directly to Alan F for clarification as you infer. Would you like me to provide more details of this?
5. You represented yourself as a “reluctant middleman” when you posted Alan’s comment back in the group. Since you “tittle-tattled” the information outside the group in the first place and continued to stir the pot this is, frankly, laughable.
I also have no idea why this thread is called “Quoting”. “Group Ethics” or Group Privacy” would , in my opinion, be more appropriate.
Mick
