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PJT
Posted By: Steve Mellen In Response To: PJT (Bill Riles)
Date: Tuesday, 1 December 2009, at 9:27 p.m.
I don't see as much smoke as you do, Bill. It seems more like conviction by means of rhetorical question.
If the guy in fact wrote a bot program back before there were even Internet servers, it defies logic to surmise that maybe he was hoping that someday someone would invent an online backgammon venue where this bot could be used to bilk people anonymously. The far more plausible assumption is the program was written for the exact same reason people created chess computers and all other sorts of game-playing computers. As a training tool, maybe with the hopes of a commercial application, whatever.
"Innocent until proven guilty" does not mean we all need to stick our heads in the sand, but it does mean that we probably shouldn't go around assuming the very worst, no matter how implausible, unless and until the person in question shows up and publicly denies the charges.
Everything posted here points to the conclusion that some guy was running bots on a backgammon server and maybe PJT and a bunch of other players knew about it and didn't do anything to stop it or warn people. That may not make him the greatest human being, but folks can draw their own conclusions about what it adds up to. There doesn't seem to be a shred of evidence, however, that PJT was an instigator of this scam or made any money from it. That kind of talk all seems like pure speculation.
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