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Article #18Re: Attention shareware programmers
From: Robert Sandilands
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 07:47
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 07:47
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I've had some private Email from the individual concerned.
I want to believe that he wants to put up a respectable shop. And
I can also hope that he'll do everything to make sure he has a clean
system with no reputation destroying elements on it.
I can also advise every shareware author to get some way like PGP
or checksums to give prospective users a way of verifying that
your software has not been tampered with. It can be a wise thing
to do with any site independant of reputation. This will protect
you and the client.
I did not intent to start/create a virtual black list with the
original poster at the top of it. I just wanted to make everybody
aware of the reputation it could have had in the past which will
hopefully change in the future. I whish this site a successfull and
"uneventfull" future.
In a way this may be considered unfair because
the admin of a system is being held responsible for the action of
some of the people using his system - but that's how it works -
the higher trees catch all the wind :( It's up to the admin to do
something about the people using his/her system.
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Nobody has the honor/dishonor to be held responsible for any of the
boblygook expressed in this long winded combination of primitive symbols
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Robert Sandilands - An Engineer and computer doctor.
Virus Analist : CSIR Virus Protection Services
Tel: +27-12-841-2106, Fax: +27-12-841-3307, Email: robert@vps.cis.co.za
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!vps.cis.co.za!robert From: robert@cis.co.za (Robert Sandilands) Newsgroups: alt.comp.shareware,alt.comp.shareware.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.mac.programmer.games,comp.sys.newton.programmer,rec.games.programmer Subject: Re: Attention shareware programmers Date: 14 Dec 1995 07:47:59 GMT Organization: CSIR Virus Protections Systems Distribution: world Message-ID: <4aokrf$4o4@africa.cis.co.za> References: <4ajos6$8c1@spectator.cris.com> <4am2gj$o4l@africa.cis.co.za> Reply-To: robert@vps.cis.co.za NNTP-Posting-Host: 196.2.16.53 X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]