From: jfurr@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joel Furr)
Subject: Re: Response time from the Washington Judge.
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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 20:44:18 GMT

In article <C0G50u.MF6@cs.dal.ca> maillet@ug.cs.dal.ca (Andre' Maillet) writes:
>     I've wanted to take up a country gone CD on the Washington Judge. (The game
>is tapir, it was advertised recently on RGD.) Anyway, I had not yet registered
>on the Washington judge because it was closing down. (I have registered on EFF,
>though). 
>
>     So I sent a registration form to the washington judge. For good measure, 
>I sent a list tapir command in a subsequent message to get details on the game.
>The list came back (the next day, It's funny 'cause EFF takes less than two 
>minutes to respond), but no word on the registration. I assumed it worked. So I
>tried to signon to tapir. I had no idea if the positions were filled because 
>of the time delay involved.
>
>     Anyhow, I sent the signon command (correctly, I think) and waited until 
>the next day (today). I have gotten no response yet. I think I queried another
>list tapir to confirm when the message should have come back. Neither did yet.
>
>     Well, my questions are these:
>
>1)   What kind of message delay should I be expecting?

Ordinarily, I get about a 120 second delay.  Since you're in Canada, you
have to deal with the vagaries of CA NET.

>2)   Have I actually registered? Does the judge confirm registration?

Yes, it does, and no, you haven't.  I send whois maillet@ug.cs.dal.ca to
the Washington judge and it had no idea who you are.

>3)   Have I signed up to tapir (anyone who is playing tapir know if I've signed
>on to england? address maillet@ug.cs.dal.ca) Is their a confirmation to this,
>also? 

Had you registered, you would have been acknowledged. 

Here's the current 'tapir' info, gotten using 'list tapir'.


Game 'tapir' order #010 (F1903M) has a deadline of Wed Jan  6 23:30:00 PST.
One or more players have not gotten their orders in.
Those who haven't gotten their orders in will be abandoned if nothing
is received by Wed Jan 13 23:30:00 PST.

The parameters for 'tapir' are as follows:
  Move    clock 1410 min 12.00 next  72.00 grace 168.00 delay 0.50 days --TWTF-
  Retreat clock   -1 min  0.00 next  24.00 grace  72.00 delay 0.50 days --TWTF-
  Adjust  clock   -1 min  0.00 next  24.00 grace  72.00 delay 0.50 days --TWTF-
  Access:  Different-site, Level: Any, Moderated.
  Variant: Standard.
  Flags:   NoNMR, NoProxy.
  Press:   White, No Fake Broadcast.

The following players are signed up for game 'tapir':
  England    move    5/5   33 martin@inferenzsysteme.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
  France     move    4/4   21 S9000289@csdvax.csd.unsw.EDU.AU
  Turkey     move    5/5 -160 count0@ucscb.UCSC.EDU
  Germany    move    5/5   87 jroberts@sanjuan.UVic.CA
  Austria    move    6/6   54 jfurr@polaris.async.vt.edu
  Italy      move    4/4  143 cscoging@unpcs1.cs.unp.ac.za
  Russia     move    5/5   63 grant@leland.stanford.edu

[ positions deleted ]

>4)   How can I find out fast if a position is unoccupied?

Periodically, send the command 'list' to get a list of all games going on
the judge.  'list ____' will give you the above info for game ____.  If a
country has CD next to its name, you can take it over. 

If you haven't already, send the following commands to a judge:

get syntax 
get deadline
get press
get rules
get index

These files tell you a lot about the questions you've asked.

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