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Setting "permission required to play" still allows kibitzers to ask permission and it is difficult to fend off the requests while trying to re-reserve the position for the disconnected player. (The 'Table' window is preempted by the requests.) The system should not automatically clear a reserved position when someone leaves the table - it would be preferable to have the clearing explicitly be under the control of the table captain. It is true that the Windows file system does support sorting by date. However: (1) One must re-sort each time you want to access another file; (2) The played sessions are then interspersed with the kibitzed sessions; (3) What advantage is there to having file names generated such that they don't sort in date sequence (when the date is already part of the file name)?

John Swanson and I have a couple of small suggestions to improve your fine site. The first is that when someone in a reserved seat loses connectivity and then regains it, the host has to re-admit him to the table. In the meantime, some uninvited kibitzers invariably jump into the seat, therebey requiring the host to request them to leave while the invited player is trying to get back in. It would be nice if the returnee were re-admitted directly to the reserved seat. The second suggestion is with regard to the automatic naming system used when the hands we play in a session get stored in the hands folder (very nice feature, by the way). It would be better if the files were named "year-month-date" as opposed to the current system of "month-date-year". The problem is that hands played in October 2006 get interspersed with those of October 2007, making it a little harder to find last night's hands. David J. Weiss