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From: salvis@iam.unibe.ch (Hans Salvisberg)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Proposed New Newsgroup - comp.sources.shareware
Message-ID: <1990Feb5.095605.25010@iam.unibe.ch>
Date: 5 Feb 90 09:56:05 GMT
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Reply-To: salvis@siam (Hans Salvisberg)
Organization: University of Berne, Dept. of Computer Science
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>"Pay if you use it" shareware and crippled demo software has no place on
>Usenet at all.

I agree about crippled demo software (which really has nothing to do with
shareware), but in my experience most of the best shareware programs are
of the "pay if you use it" kind. The "donation is appreciated" kind is 
usually just utilities. 

Hans Salvisberg      salvis@ahorn.iam.unibe.ch