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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Aug 27, 2003 12:20 AM UTC:
I removed the Asteryx Chess invitation from the Waiting Room, because it
was not an open invitation. It was not an open invitation with priority to
the inventor. It simply wasn't open at all. David Jagger is the only
person who can accept this invitation. 

There was a bug in the script that let you call an invitation open even
when it was not. I removed this bug, and to make sure your invitation did
not confuse anyone as to the purpose of the Waiting Room, I removed it
from there. In the future, the PBM will not let you call an invitation
open unless you identify your opponent with an email address. Whenever you
use a Userid, it is directed to that person only, and it is not open.

You should also know that selecting an open invitation affects the wording
of the invitation. In fact, this is all it was originally intended to do.
So the text in the email looked like this:

Roberto Lavieri issues an open inviatation [sic] to play Asteryx Chess on
the web-based PBM server at Play.Chessvariants.com. This invitation will
last until someone accepts it. To play Asteryx Chess with Roberto Lavieri,
follow this link: 

So, I expect that David Jagger did not understand that the invitation was
directed to him specifically. Perhaps you should email him and tell him
that it was.

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