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> Every day today we are losing tens of thousands of visitors to our
> website at http://www.uschess.org because there is no way to find on
> our website the news reports about the World Chess Championship Match
> that is now taking place. You would not even know from looking at our
> website that there is such a match.
>
> I realize that this is not Jennifer's fault, but Jennifer is the only
> name we know. We do not know who the nameless webmaster of our website
> is, except that we have heard that he is somewhere in Canada. As a
> result, Jennifer is going to take the blame for this debacle, so I
> hope that she gets on the case and finds out who the real webmaster is
> and both complains to him and lets us know who he is.
>
> Do you mean to say that we paid, or are paying, $50,000 for this? We
> would have been better off continuing to muddle along in our hapless
> way, rather than call in these so-called experts to tell us how to run
> our website and our magazine. These experts have done nothing but
> cause us grief and cost us money, while losing our readership.
>
> The website is junk. The changes in the magazine, such as deleting all
> information about the USCF, including how to join and what the
> membership dues are or even the mailing address of the organization,
> is a disaster.
>
> Do not believe me?? Go through Chess Life and see if you can find any
> place where it says exactly what the mailing address of the USCF is,
> or where to send your money or how much to pay if you want to join the
> USCF.
>
> I vote to stop all payments to the webmaster and to Paul Hoffman. I
> understand that we have not paid him the full $50,000 yet. The man is
> worthless. Demand our money back and tell him in no uncertain terms:
> NO MORE MONEY.
>
> Do I make myself clear, or should I tell you what I really think about
> the current situation?
>
> Sam Sloan