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From: kassover@jupiter.crd.ge.com (David Kassover)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Help with MaxAppleZoom
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Date: 8 May 90 19:51:29 GMT
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In article <9380002@hp-ptp.HP.COM> davew@hp-ptp.HP.COM (Dave_Waller) writes:
|dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) writes:
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|| He also said that he's had a _VERY_ poor shareware-payment response from
|| users in the U.S... U.S. users are apparently reluctant to try to send
|| cash overseas, for fear of having it disappear en-route.
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|Well, as you already know, I am unable to use this neat INIT at this
|writing. However...
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|I must throw my voice into this plea to send the author his fair
|payment. If I could use the INIT, my $$ would be in the mail
|right now.
...

Irrespective of the risks and benefits of shareware, what's the
big deal about writing the guy a check?  Maybe it's common to
send "cash" (bank notes) through the mails in the UK, but it is
to be discouraged in US.

But so what?  I can't imagine it being so very hard to establish
an account at the British equivalent of a commercial bank so the
author can deposit checks written for US dollars.  Nor is it so
very hard to get a bank check written here in Pounds Sterling.


Or any other European currency.  (Well, rubles would be
difficult, I suppose 8-)
--
David Kassover             "Proper technique helps protect you against
kassover@ra.crd.ge.com	    sharp weapons and dull judges."
kassover@crd.ge.com			F. Collins