Subj : Re: KityMail
To   : Marceline Jones
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Sat Mar 27 2021 08:41 pm

->  ML> there's no need for name calling, really... 
 
-> I will describe him as a contemptibly foolish person instead (aka JERK). 
->   
->  MJ> He says so himself in the nagware splash screen: 
 
->  ML> there's nothing wrong with that... many programmers did similar and 
->  ML> still do, today...  
 
-> Which is why a lot of old shareware is useless today. 
 
->  MJ> His short-sightedness is confirmed in the documentation: 
 
->  ML> what short-sightedness? 
 
-> The kind that makes programs useless after 25 years. 
 
->  MJ> Newer version of the KITYMAIL key file will be available on the 
->  MJ> "Someplace to Start" BBS and will be distributed freely to other 
->  MJ> BBS's. 
->  MJ> He just wants people to call his BBS to artificially inflate his ego. 
 
->  ML> for some reason, you seem to have missed the last part of that 
->  ML> sentence... "will be distributed to other BBS's[sic]"...  
 
-> What good is that when those BBS's no longer exist. 
 
->  ML> in any case, if the software doesn't meet your needs, don't use it... 
->  ML> complaining won't change anything...  
 
-> Complaining did change something. 
 
-> KITYMAIL.BAT: 
-> ================================================== 
-> date 01/01/1996 
-> wcrun -r kitymail %* 
-> ================================================== 
 
-> (Now it just stalls for 10 seconds instead of 50 minutes). 
 
-> ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30 
-> --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux 
->  * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705) 
  
Yeah, but the rest of the dates on your system are going to be messed 
up. 
 
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