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From: everett@hpcvra.cv.hp.com. (Everett Kaser)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Shareware author's poor response rate (Was Re: PKLITE 1.03 bug)
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Date: 5 Jan 91 20:54:43 GMT
References: <1991Jan5.085708.617@uwasa.fi>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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/ ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes...
> w8sdz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Keith Petersen) writes:
>>Put this in the "frequently asked question" list.
>>     Phil Katz <katz@csd4.csd.uwm.edu>
>>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...
> (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)

In all fairness, this shouldn't be generalized to ANY OTHER shareware author.

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