Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!isgate!krafla!thsa From: thsa@rhi.hi.is (Thorvaldur S Arnarson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: Replies to comments about Rap comms program. Message-ID: <2598@krafla.rhi.hi.is> Date: 7 Jan 91 08:27:18 GMT References: Reply-To: thsa@rhi.hi.is (Thorvaldur S Arnarson) Organization: University of Iceland (RHI) Lines: 38 |thsa@rhi.hi.is (Thorvaldur S Arnarson) writes: | |> Don't get me wrong, I do not object to posting shareware to |> the net but a human readable part of the posting has to indicate so! | |The posting did indicate that the software was shareware. I cannot |see how you could have missed this. Here are the first two lines |of the message: Ok I goofed. |Rap is a reasonable comms program, not commercial quality |but certainly okay for calling bulletin boards. If you already |have a commercial package that you are satisfied with then I |can't see what you are complaining about - you aren't being |forced to use Rap. | |It is shareware, meaning that you aren't breaking any laws by |using it. Sending in a donation to the author is optional --- The Info part of the program expicitly states conditions of use wich include sending a "donation" |if you don't like RAP and aren't interested in any of the |other programs the author has to offer (for example he |has been writing some interesting ray tracing programs since |then - have you tried his program 'POSTER' by Formation?) |then don't send in a donation. I've seen poster and it's very good, strange how the same progammer can have such wildly different styles. Poster is comercial! |I am about to post another shareware program by someone |else here, it is quite different from Rap. Try it if you |like. I will! -- Regards, Thorvaldur S. Arnarson