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- From: horza@gu228uq.demon.co.uk (Phillip Temple)
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- Subject: Re: >>> TO SHAREWARE AUTHORS! <<<
- Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 19:18:47 GMT
- Organization: PG Graphic Design
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960106.191847.21@gu228uq.demon.co.uk>
- References: <4cjnjh$70j@tron.sci.fi>
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- I'm going to let this one pass :-) The author is obviously UserNet
- literate. Technically, this service _could_ be used by an Acorn
- programmer (though of course it won't). It is also gratifyingly
- short.
-
- In message <4cjnjh$70j@tron.sci.fi> Jyri Hovila wrote:
-
- > [snip]
- > NOTICE 3: Offers like this usually raise a storm of protest, mostly
- > because of their "commercial nature", I guess. If you're
- > thinking about writing me a mail full of four letter
- > words, please pick up your calculator and check out how big
- > your phone bill would be if you sent manually a 100 KB
- > archive to hundreds of ftp-sites. I'm really not going to
- > get rich with this system. If you're ready to take care of
- > this kind of service for free, just mail me and I'll hand
- > the "business" over to you!
-
- Clever!
-
- > IMPORTANT: As it's impossible for me to convince you that I'm not
- > ~~~~~~~~~~ trying to cheat you, the system works this way: You send me
- > some "registration data" I need to start the service (your
- > E-mail address, telephone number etc...), and the service is
- > active right away. If I don't receive your "registration
- > fee" within two weeks, I'll close the service until I get
- > the money. This means, that you have about one week to test
- > me. Also, I'll give you my snail-mail address, telephone
- > number etc., so that you're not "depending" just on my
- > e-mail address.
- >
-
- Would you buy a used car from this man :-)
-
- > Please mail me for further information and/or opening the service! All
- > kind of feedback is also welcomed and WANTED! Please let me hear about
- > you!
-
- This post + a web URL, posted to .announce, could just about pass.
- I could live with it if all commercial posts were like this (with
- the above conditions).
-
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