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> From Cricinfo Commentary

> "And Andrew Dunford has struck again in his inimitable fashion (and as
> a
> related aside hey Resident Rodent of RSC, I refuse to name you despite
> your
> mails to me!). Meanwhile Andrew says, "While you are waiting, a quick
> match
> report from the under-9 grade in sunny Wellington. Collegians Aces
> 130/5
> beat Karori Crocodiles 68/6 at Kelburn Park." All I can say is Shut up
> Dungford (TM). For the uninitiated RSC is a usenet cricket group.
> Cricinfo
> grew from there to be where it is now. Some say, the early days were
> better!"

> Ah, CiL is factually incorrect on that one. Cricinfo grew out of irc,
> not rsc. It's true that many people (including me) got on to irc after
> it was mentioned on rsc, so that there was substantial overlap between
> the two communities. But cricinfo was very much an irc concept,
> starting out as a software bot, and then migrating to the web a few
> years later.-

> From Cricinfo Commentary

> "And Andrew Dunford has struck again in his inimitable fashion (and as
> a
> related aside hey Resident Rodent of RSC,

>> Ah, CiL is factually incorrect on that one. Cricinfo grew out of irc,
>> not rsc. It's true that many people (including me) got on to irc after
>> it was mentioned on rsc, so that there was substantial overlap between
>> the two communities. But cricinfo was very much an irc concept,
>> starting out as a software bot, and then migrating to the web a few
>> years later.-

> Aha, so our dear Sriram Veera is the culprit. I wonder if he's getting
> paid to write this nonsense :-)

>> Aha, so our dear Sriram Veera is the culprit. I wonder if he's
>> getting paid to write this nonsense :-)

> To be fair, I did not chase down the exact bit of commentary that
> Rats mentioned, so do not know if Sriram Veera was the perpetrator
> of that bit. However, Sriram has had some reports apparently from
> NZ on CI during these last week or two, so I assumed he's in NZ and
>  commentating on some of the matches. All assumption on my part.

> > Aha, so our dear Sriram Veera is the culprit. I wonder if he's getting
> > paid to write this nonsense :-)

> To be fair, I did not chase down the exact bit of commentary that Rats
> mentioned, so do not know if Sriram Veera was the perpetrator of that
> bit. However, Sriram has had some reports apparently from NZ on CI
> during these last week or two, so I assumed he's in NZ and
> commentating on some of the matches. All assumption on my part.

> > Do you feel proud?

> Does the head of a particular Christian denomination defecate in a
> forested area?

> >> Ah, CiL is factually incorrect on that one. Cricinfo grew out of irc,
> >> not rsc. It's true that many people (including me) got on to irc after
> >> it was mentioned on rsc, so that there was substantial overlap between
> >> the two communities. But cricinfo was very much an irc concept,
> >> starting out as a software bot, and then migrating to the web a few
> >> years later.-

> > Aha, so our dear Sriram Veera is the culprit. I wonder if he's getting
> > paid to write this nonsense :-)

> It isn't a secret. ?At the beginning of the day he writes "this is Sriram
> Veera commentating" and at the end "this is Sriram Veera signing off" or
> whatever.

> Andrew