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From: Rob Kudla
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 1995 00:00

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Wow.

I looked around at your site and am again impressed by your audacity.  Not
only are you only listing your own stuff and that of people who pay you,
but you're not even providing file storage for the people who pay you to
list their stuff!  This means that users surfing to your site to find
shareware will be taking a chance that the program they're after is on
a server that's up, since your server being up will be no guarantee that
the author's is up.

I was thrilled at the two programs you have by someone other than your
own company.  Of those, one was a pointer to a file on the SIMTEL
mirror on the oak.oakland.edu FTP site (which was busy and wouldn't
let me in, but I tried the Web-icized version and it was fine, tho I
have no interest in that particular program) and the other site didn't
respond after two tries.  Amazing!  Naturally, I didn't bother trying
any of your own company's stuff.

And to top it all off, before you ever see the list you have six lines
of self-congratulatory tripe at the top of the page, mentioning that
your site is there to promote your own software and also (as an aside)
that of other authors.

Anyone who gives you money is a moron.  Luckily, the established free
Web archives of DOS and Windows stuff have a heck of a head start on
you, so I don't think I need to wish your company any ill will.

Rob

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From: Rob Kudla <kudla@squonk.com>
Subject: Re: Attention shareware Authors and Users...
Date: 1995/07/08
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