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- From: jhovila@muikku.jmp.fi (Jyri-Pekka Hovila)
- Newsgroups: comp.software.licensing,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.apple2.programmer
- Subject: SHAREWARE AUTHORS!
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 22:23:39 +0200
- Organization: JMP-Electronics, Kuopio, Finland
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- 1. 1. 1995
- Kuopio,
- FINLAND
-
-
- S H A R E W A R E A U T H O R !
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-
- I'm offering you a very easy and cheap service to spread your new
- shareware releases and to search for the old versions of your program
- and replace them with the new one. I've run this service for three
- scandinavian shareware authors for two months, and as the feedback has
- been very positive, I've decided to expand the service outside
- scandinavia.
-
-
- Here is a rough description of the service I'm offering:
-
-
- 1. New release -service
-
- For a fee of US$120 per year, I'll take care of spreading your
- new shareware-releases. Within 48 hours from the moment I
- receive your release packet, I'll send it to all anonymous
- ftp-sites that support the kind of software your program is. At
- the moment, my list of anonymous ftp-sites contains over 1000
- entries, and it's expanding all the time. I'll also send a
- message to a bunch of Usenet news groups telling that a new
- release of your program is available and where it can be
- downloaded. When I've completed the task, I'll send you a
- report with a list of all ftp-sites your program has been sent
- to.
-
-
- 2. Update -service
-
- For a fee of US$50 (Or US$20 if a New release-contract is
- valid.) I'll do a "deep scan" (6 WWW-searches, 6
- Veronica-searches, lookthrough of the 10 largest anonymous
- FTP-sites) and search for old versions of your program. When an
- old version is found, I'll send the new version of your program
- to the site where the "oldie" was found, accompanied with a
- friendly letter to the administrator asking him to replace the
- old version with the new one. After all this, I'll send you a
- report telling that the task is completed. All this will happen
- within 48 hours from the moment I receive your "order".
-
-
- NOTICE: As I'm running my service 100% MANUALLY (Phew!), I'm not
- able to serve very many clients in order to keep my promise
- about the 48 hour limit. If you're not in such a hurry, and
- like to save a few bucks, the task will be done within four
- days, and the prices will be:
-
- - New release -service: US$108
- - Update -service: US$45
- - Update -service with a valid New release -service: US$18
-
-
- NOTICE 2: If your program is for Atari ST, I might be interested in
- doing the work for free, if you give me a registered version
- of your program. This depends completely on the program and
- on it's registration fee.
-
-
- 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 letter 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!
-
-
- 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.
-
-
- 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!
-
-
- - Jyri
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- tel. +358 (9)71 283 4998 (jysky@northstar.iwn.fi)
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- http://www.sci.fi/~jysky
-
- Check out my home page for "Internet survival kit" including uu-, xx-
- and base-64 (de)coders, GIF and JP(E)G viewers, WWW-browsers etc. for
- PC, Atari ST & Amiga!
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