Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!dimacs.rutgers.edu!mips!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!uwasa.fi!ts From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d Subject: Shareware author's poor response rate (Was Re: PKLITE 1.03 bug) Message-ID: <1991Jan5.085708.617@uwasa.fi> Date: 5 Jan 91 08:57:08 GMT References: <1991Jan5.040756.4217@maytag.waterloo.edu> <4545@vela.acs.oakland.edu> Organization: University of Vaasa Lines: 24 In article <4545@vela.acs.oakland.edu> w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) writes: : >Put this in the "frequently asked question" list. > > Phil Katz > >Don't expect an answer to email. He only answers about one in ten >messages that I send to him there. That's a pretty poor return. : >Keith Petersen >Maintainer of SIMTEL20's MSDOS, MISC & CP/M archives [IP address 26.2.0.74] : Even if one might understand the background, I feel slightly peeved about this state of affairs. There is no denying the fact that we are offering a free service to shareware authors by distributing their programs. And looking at the download statistics this service is far from negligible. (In all fairness, this shouldn't be generalized to each and every big shareware author.) ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3) School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun