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From: jnoh@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Jay Noh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Red Ryder 11.0 Announcement
Keywords: white knight
Message-ID: <1866@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 26 Oct 89 03:10:19 GMT
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In article <829@pmafire.UUCP> geoff@pmafire.UUCP (Geoff Allen) writes:

>Pardon my ignorance, but how is talking about the pending release of
>White Knight any different than talking about Adobe Type Manager, to
>which noone objected?

I did actually object to it. I wasn't going to post my objection to such
commercial use for the sake of keeping the volume of c.s.m. down.

However, now that everyone is voicing their opinion on this matter, I must
say that any commercial use of the newsgroup should be totally banned.

If the software vendors keep track of its registered users, they can (and
should) send upgrade info directly to the registered users only!
It would even be profitable for the software companies to do so by eliminating
people that would, for example in RR, send in shareware fees for RR 9.x and
subsequently upgrading to RR 11.0, rather than paying the new RR 11.0 price.

BTW, I am a registered user of RR 10.3 and have absolutely no intention of
upgrading to RR 11.0.

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