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Writes blunden@ccu:

> >The nag screens are obnoxious and offensive.  They 
> > interfere with my testing of the program.
>
> Am I the only one who thought this statement was laughable?

Don't know. Ask for a vote.... but among USERS, not authors.

> Seriously, I think there are good reasons for shareware authors to 
> put a reminder, or "nag" screen, in their evaluation copies --- as 
> long as it's done in a polite and unobtrusive manner. 
 
If they were polite and unobtrusive, they wouldn't be nag screens.
WHat we are objecting to is the obtrusiveness and the impoliteness. 
 
> There is a booming business in selling shareware disks, and in 
> vending machines which allow you to download programs onto a 
> floppy disk.  There are also computer vendors who stuff the PC's 
> they sell with shareware programs.  (My own PC came with about 
> 20Megs of various programs on it, most of which I deleted).

That's a legitimate consideration and concern.  If the distribution 
you mention is illegal, it can be stopped by writing to the District 
Attorney of the jurisdiction where it is occurring.  Not by 
bombarding ME with nag screens upon opening and closing the darn 
thing.  

And if the distribution you mention IS legal, then you have no cause 
to complain about it.

> The best way to get rid of the nag screens is to register --- 
> period.

Please think again - if your advice were carried out, we would have 
to register literally hundreds of programs just to get rid of their 
nag screens, regardless of whether we want to use them or not. 
You're not making any sense here, I'm sorry to say.