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From: kofoid@bioscience.utah.edu (Dr. Cancer)
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Subject: Re: avoid IM DA 2.0 (Pity the authors :))
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Date: 22 Feb 91 23:27:00 GMT
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In article <28731.27c43a2a@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 
2fmlcalls@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> I certainly would never condone a shareware author who takes in checks
> without following up on a promise, but I think some people who send in
> shareware payments do so with the wrong attitude....
>
> [violins]
>
>...I tend to send the check off with about the same attitude I do when I
>  send out a program - I expect the worst.
> 
> john calhoun

Nothing personal, but give me a break!

If one distributes software indicated as "shareware" in *any* kind of 
advertisement, then one has entered into a contractual agreement with the
people reading it. If they do what the author tells them to do, then the
author *has* to send the product.  This is the law. To do otherwise is
false advertising.

IM DA 2.0 is not present in any archive.  The only way to get it is from 
Bernard Gallet.  Several kind readers have sent me similar horror stories, 
most saying that they received the product ultimately by copying from a
friend or (in one instance) by contacting the author directly by phone.

I refuse to become a pirate and illegally copy the DA.  What I want is 
quite simple: For Gallet to honor his advertising and send me the product 
I paid for.  In the meantime, I simply wish to alert people to the manner
in which he conducts business.

Gallet may be a perfectly decent guy, but absent minded, as you say.  If
so, then the least he can do is drop me a letter or some email explaining
the delay, or return my money.  If I hear something convincing from him,
then I will post it to the net.  Otherwise, I'm going to stay annoyed and
let the world know about it.

Cheers,

Eric.