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Bulletin Boards on Kasparov vs. The World
Online bulletin boards, known as BBS's or "the boards," are public e-mail groups. Users post messages which are seen by everyone who has signed on, and then reply to any or all of the messages.
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The online bulletin boards are the most popular feature of Kasparov vs. The World. Since the beginning of the historic game on June 21, more than 35,000 messages have been posted. Over 100,000 page views are registered every day. Nate Gehl, Community Producer of MSNBC Chat Rooms, says "If I had to rank the Kasparov vs. the World boards against other MSNBC bulletin boards, they would be #2 or #3 overall." Not bad considering the huge number of boards found on the World Wide Web.
Kasparov vs. The World offers two bulletin boards, one for general discussion of the event: http:// bbs.msnbc.com/bbs/kasparov-general/index.asp and one devoted to strategy in the great effort to defeat the World Champion. When you log on to the World Team Strategy Bulletin Board at http: //bbs.msnbc.com/bbs/kasparov-team/index.asp, you see something like this: World Team Strategy Bulletin Board
Choose the message(s) you'd like to read and click on the underlined text. Let's say the next-to-last one, "What's Garry up to (besides trying to win) NA" catches your eye. When you click on the line, the following page opens, showing you the text of davidlee's message:
He is responding to Dummy's message posted on Aug. 3. Notice Dummy's reference to "the boards" meaning "bulletin boards" and "good posts" meaning " interesting messages." As always, the Internet is a platform for new lingo.
If you want to make some comment on this message, click the Reply button, which opens the page at /scripts2/post.dll. Simply type in your name, e-mail address and your message in the boxes provided and hit the Post Message button. It's very fast and easy. Then return to the postings page and look for your alias, which is the first part of your e-mail address. It's quite exciting the first time you see your own message on public view - and you wonder how people around the world are going to reply. It doesn't take long to find out. In addition to Reply, your other options - Prev Message, All Posts, and Next Message - allow maximum flexibility in navigating the board. When you click on an underlined header to read the message, you also get a Message Thread sequence like the one after this posting:
Message thread:
The General Discussion board at /bbs/kasparov-general/index.asp looks like this:
General Discussion
Use the general board as if you were on the Strategy board - choose a message and click on it, read the message and reply or go on. This is a great way to get a lot of information and opinions in a very short time and to share your views on everything related to the Kasparov event.
You never know who's reading your posts; Moderator Danny King and our four Analysts are active on the boards every day. Irina Krush and Danny often write, "the talk on the boards has favored.... " or "as blimpy wrote yesterday on the strategy board....." So when you sign on, you are really influencing your colleagues - and the outcome of the game - while having a lot of fun participating in the world's most exciting game of chess. --Art Fazakas
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