Thoth is shareware. If you wish to redistribute the program, you must obtain the prior written permission of Brian Clark, and you must distribute the complete Thoth archive containing the application and all other files.
If Thoth has not been registered then some program features may only work a limited number of times before they disabled. Saved group lists will not remember which posts have been read once the trial period has ended. Only a limited number of queued transfers per session will be allowed if Thoth has not been registered. The kept article features that permits saving interesting articles and offline newsreading are disabled once the trial period has ended. Binary posting is also disabled once the trial period has ended and only one post per session is allowed prior to that. Alerts reminding you that Thoth is shareware will be shown when starting, quitting, or switching servers until the program has been registered via Kagi and you have received and entered your registration key. You can register Thoth online via a secure server:
<https://order.kagi.com/?BA>
Thoth requires at least 3500 kB of free RAM, and either CarbonLib 1.0.4 and System 8.5 or later or Mac OS X (10.0 final). Mac OS 9.1 shipped with CarbonLib 1.1.1 which has a number of bugs including one that causes slow typing. Mac OS 9.1 users should upgrade to CarbonLib 1.2.
Thoth was written by Brian Clark:
<mailto:baclark@kagi.com>
The home site for Thoth is:
<http://www.thothsw.com>
The following people have in one way or another helped in the development, testing, and support of Thoth. Many thanks to: Terje Bless, Stefan Borth, Deborah Goldsmith, Russ Harlan, Jim Luther, David McIntosh, J. B. Moreno, Willem Nijenhuis, Andreas Prilop, Paul Ripley, Drew D. Saur, Andrew Starr, Martin Nadeau, and Daniel E. White. Many thanks also to John Norstad for his NewsWatcher program that showed how a Macintosh newsreader should look and behave.
The regular expression code is a slightly modified version of code by Henry Spencer. The plugin interface for the extended character set conversion was designed and written by Dan Crevier, and additional support code for non-Roman language support was written by Mizutori Tetsuya and Xiaolin Zhao. Text editing code using the WASTE text engine is based on code by Marco Piovanelli and Dan Crevier. “Natural Order” string sorting is based on code by Stuart Cheshire. The X-Face decoding code was originally written by James Ashton. JPEG decoding is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group. Some utility code is based on code written by John Norstad and published by Northwestern University.
THE AUTHOR PROVIDES THOTH AS IS, WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR PROMISE OF TECHNICAL SUPPORT. THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ANY LIABILITY OF ANY KIND FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM THE USE OF THOTH, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INDIRECT OR SPECIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, EVEN IF THE AUTHOR IS AWARE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. THE AUTHOR MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO THE PROGRAM, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
