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From: PGOETZ@LOYVAX.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Shareware, Posting, Job
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Date: 21 Mar 89 22:17:00 GMT
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I have two related questions for you folk:

1.      Shareware:  A few of my friends and I (mostly writers for COMPUTIST)
have some programs we want to market as shareware.  We're planning to distribute
them on bulletin boards and networks.
        Do you have any advice such as things to do, things not to do
(such as, should we take out magazine ads?), or the types of programs which
are most successful as shareware?  I'm planning on asking from $10-25
for my utility programs.  Is that unreasonable, or too low?
        (I tried to send this question to Don Elton specifically, but the
mailer gags on "pro-carolina".)

2.      Posting:  I've never posted any program anywhere, nor do I have any
packing programs (UUENCODE, ShrinkIt, BINSCII, BLU, and all the other dozens of
programs which I'm supposed to be familiar with just to get a program onto
& off of a board).  What program should I use to post Apple DOS 3.3
B,T, and A (binary, text, and Applesoft) files so the most people can
read them?  Better yet, how can I just post a complete disk (preferably DOS 3.3)
so others can download it?  This includes postings to APPLE2-L, Genie,
Compuserve, AppleLink, Delphi, and local bulletin boards.  I have Kermit and
Ascii Express.

And now, for something completely different:

        I've tried for the last few years, usually unsuccessfully, to get
a summer programming job.  Why is it so hard for a highly-qualified person
with skills supposedly in great demand to get a summer job?  I know
most local software companies (Muse, Avalon Hill, Microprose) claim that
a person can't understand one of their programs well enough to work on it
in less than 1-3 months, but that is complete bullshit.
        Does anyone know a good way to find a summer programming job?
Any known job openings around Maryland that you're not saving for yourselves?

Disclaimer:  Any resemblences to persons real or imaginary is very probably
        intentional and malicious.  So sue me.

Phil Goetz
PGOETZ@LOYVAX.bitnet
(301) 532-8240

"I'll be mellow when I'm dead" - Weird Al Yankovic