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From: coy@ssc-vax (Stephen B Coy)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Shareware is junk
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Date: 3 May 91 00:13:49 GMT
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>Personally, I neither cripple nor put reminders in the shareware I write.
>And I get no registrations, either. Has anybody else out there had the
>experience of an unregistered user writing email like "Your stuff is great,
>I use it all the time. Do you suppose you could add feature X?"

How about "I love your program, best of its type, can you mail me
the source?"  BTW my shareware is neither crippled nor loaded with
threats yet I've still had registrations.  Not many, but enough to
keep me optimistic about version 2.

>James W. Birdsall   WORK: jwbirdsa@amc.com   {uunet,uw-coco}!amc-gw!jwbirdsa
>HOME: {uunet,uw-coco}!amc-gw!picarefy!jwbirdsa OTHER: 71261.1731@compuserve.com

Stephen Coy
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