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From: greenber@utoday.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Paying for Shareware (Was: Re: v09i070: newsclip 1.1...)
Message-ID: <1288@utoday.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 90 05:21:13 GMT
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Reply-To: greenber@.UUCP (Ross M. Greenberg)
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In article <15191@bfmny0.UU.NET> tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) writes:
>
>Shareware binaries work exactly as well on the net** as they do on BBS's
>and commercial timesharing services -- neither better or worse.  You
>fling your handiwork to the winds and sit back and hope for a decent
>percentage of registrations.

Actually, you're wrong.  UseNet is a lousy source of revenue for me. Seems
it is for most of the shareware people I speak to - I'll go so far as to 
say that no one I know has made any money off of their shareware through 
UseNet as a channel.

>
>Or if you're truly hopeless, you spend lots of time on the computer nets
>TALKING about all this instead of DOING it.  :-)
>

I have the time to spend on the nets.  Shareware has been very good to me,
Tom, except on the nets. 


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