First Annoucement of Israeli Mahjong Association

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I announce of creation of new mahjong organization, the Israeli
Mahjong Association for all the Hebrew reading players in Israel. our
contact info and site (written in Hebrew (UTF8 Encoding) ) and also
our rulebook can be accessed from http://www.mjong.tk .our real-world
activity currenty limited to the city Be'er-Sheva. also you can
contact the association at mjil@ezrs.com.DeleteThis
 
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gen2002@walla.co.il (Gennady Archangorodsky) wrote in message news:<3eb2f8de.0405091333.29b18080@posting.google.com>...
> I announce of creation of new mahjong organization, the Israeli
> Mahjong Association for all the Hebrew reading players in Israel. our
> contact info and site (written in Hebrew (UTF8 Encoding) ) and also
> our rulebook can be accessed from http://www.mjong.tk .our real-world
> activity currenty limited to the city Be'er-Sheva. also you can
> contact the association at mjil@ezrs.com.DeleteThis

It is fascinating that an "ancient" Chinese game found its way into
Jewish culture. Do you anticipate having an English translation of
your rules in the future? I'd love to learn more about how the game
is played in Israel. Thanks for the post.
 
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On 2004-05-10 18:00:50 +0200, d_lau@my-deja.com (Dee) said:

> gen2002@walla.co.il (Gennady Archangorodsky) wrote in message
> news:<3eb2f8de.0405091333.29b18080@posting.google.com>...
>> I announce of creation of new mahjong organization, the Israeli
>> Mahjong Association for all the Hebrew reading players in Israel. our
>> contact info and site (written in Hebrew (UTF8 Encoding) ) and also
>> our rulebook can be accessed from http://www.mjong.tk .our real-world
>> activity currenty limited to the city Be'er-Sheva. also you can
>> contact the association at mjil@ezrs.com.DeleteThis
>
> It is fascinating that an "ancient" Chinese game found its way into
> Jewish culture. Do you anticipate having an English translation of
> your rules in the future? I'd love to learn more about how the game
> is played in Israel. Thanks for the post.

As a matter of fact, mahjong in the United States is played especially
by the Jewish community (and the Chinese/Japanese of course).
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Martin Rep <mrep@mahjongnews.com> wrote in message news:<40a05651$0$61616$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>...
> On 2004-05-10 18:00:50 +0200, d_lau@my-deja.com (Dee) said:
>
> > gen2002@walla.co.il (Gennady Archangorodsky) wrote in message
> > news:<3eb2f8de.0405091333.29b18080@posting.google.com>...
> >> I announce of creation of new mahjong organization, the Israeli
> >> Mahjong Association for all the Hebrew reading players in Israel. our
> >> contact info and site (written in Hebrew (UTF8 Encoding) ) and also
> >> our rulebook can be accessed from http://www.mjong.tk .our real-world
> >> activity currenty limited to the city Be'er-Sheva. also you can
> >> contact the association at mjil@ezrs.com.DeleteThis
> >
> > It is fascinating that an "ancient" Chinese game found its way into
> > Jewish culture. Do you anticipate having an English translation of
> > your rules in the future? I'd love to learn more about how the game
> > is played in Israel. Thanks for the post.
>
> As a matter of fact, mahjong in the United States is played especially
> by the Jewish community (and the Chinese/Japanese of course).

Yes, I know MJ is played by the American Jewish community, but I
always thought that it was just the "American MJ" that they played (I
don't know if that thought is correct, but that is what I've always
assumed). Now I hear there is an MJ Association in Israel and that
got me really curious whether they play the same MJ in Israel as the
American Jewish community or whether they play by a different set of
rules.
 
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Dee wrote:

>... really curious whether they play the same MJ in Israel as the
>American Jewish community or whether they play by a different set of
>rules.

A quick glance at the tiles on the front page of their site indicates that
their rules are not the American NMJL rules. When I try to visit their other
pages, I get gibberish HTML code rather than nice Hebrew writing. So I can't
make any guesses about the rules they use.

Tom
 
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"Tom Sloper" <tomster@sloperamaNOSPAM.com> wrote in message news:<g3zoc.79576$kh4.4657588@attbi_s52>...
> Dee wrote:
>
> >... really curious whether they play the same MJ in Israel as the
> >American Jewish community or whether they play by a different set of
> >rules.
>
> A quick glance at the tiles on the front page of their site indicates that
> their rules are not the American NMJL rules. When I try to visit their other
> pages, I get gibberish HTML code rather than nice Hebrew writing. So I can't
> make any guesses about the rules they use.
>
> Tom

Hi Tom ,

I think that the gibberish that you see is acctualy a bug in the explorer ,
We soon interduce a PDF version instead.

Also , we're using modified Chinese classical rules as our rulebook

Cheers , :)
Gennady
 
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gen2002@walla.co.il (Gennady Archangorodsky) wrote in message news:<3eb2f8de.0405132232.5890f420@posting.google.com>...
> Also , we're using modified Chinese classical rules as our rulebook

Fascinating. Thank you for posting this information. If I ever
travel to Israel, I will be comforted to know that I can find fellow
MJ players that I can enjoy a game with and play with rules that I
understand (I don't understand American MJ rules). This is certainly
great news.

Maybe Cofa's dream of an "International MJ" (to avoid trademark
infringement) is not that far off the mark after all.

Thanks for the post, Gennady, I hope MJ thrives in Israel and you find
a large group of players.
 
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"Dee" <d_lau@my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:bc999a91.0405140801.7e9ae1ee@posting.google.com...
> gen2002@walla.co.il (Gennady Archangorodsky) wrote in message
news:<3eb2f8de.0405132232.5890f420@posting.google.com>...
> > Also , we're using modified Chinese classical rules as our rulebook
>
> Fascinating. Thank you for posting this information. If I ever
> travel to Israel, I will be comforted to know that I can find fellow
> MJ players that I can enjoy a game with and play with rules that I
> understand (I don't understand American MJ rules). This is certainly
> great news.
>
> Maybe Cofa's dream of an "International MJ" (to avoid trademark
> infringement) is not that far off the mark after all.

Dee, you don't infringe the rights of a trademark by simply quoting it.
Otherwise the owners of Microsoft, McDonald's, etc. would have to have too
much to do ^_^

Besides, a world unified mahjong style is not a dream of me alone nowadays -
I believe many people already get along well with this idea - I might just
be among those who had created this idea, though (??!!)

Cofa Tsui
www.iMahjong.com
 
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"Gennady Archangorodsky" <gen2002@walla.co.il> wrote...
>
> I think that the gibberish that you see is acctualy a bug in the explorer
,
> We soon interduce a PDF version instead.

Yep. I see that the history page works fine in Netscape (still gibberish in
IE), and that the rules page is indeed a PDF now. Thanks, Gennady.

Tom
 
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gen2002@walla.co.il (Gennady Archangorodsky) wrote
> I think that the gibberish that you see is acctualy a bug in the explorer ,

MSIE has a lot of bugs, but in this case it's not the cause of all
that gibberish.

You hide the real url of your website in a clumsy way: the frameset is
not valid HTML, it misses a DOCTYPE and a proper charset declaration.
The default charset of your server is ISO-8959-1, the inner frames are
declared as UTF-8, but the content is actually ISO-8859-1 entities.
Too confusing for MSIE. It's a miracle Netscape is able to guess the
right charset.

Also, all your pages are not written in valid HTML. They contain a lot
of errors. For instance, in history.html, you've got 857 superflous
</span> tags. No wonder browsers have a hard time deciding how to
render your code.

Try validating your pages, you'll see what I mean:

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.mjong.tk/
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//earth.prohosting.com/gen2002/il/index.html
 
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