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SHAREWARE AUTHORS!

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From: Jyri-Pekka Hovila
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 20:23
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								1. 1. 1995
								Kuopio,
								FINLAND


		S H A R E W A R E   A U T H O R !
		~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

						
I'm offering you a very easy  and  cheap  service  to  spread  your  new
shareware releases and to search for the old versions  of  your  program
and replace them with the new one.  I've  run  this  service  for  three
scandinavian shareware authors for two months, and as the  feedback  has
been very positive, I've decided   to   expand   the   service   outside
scandinavia.


Here is a rough description of the service I'm offering:


	1. New release -service
	
		For a fee of US$120 per year, I'll take care of spreading  your
		new shareware-releases. Within  48  hours  from  the  moment  I
		receive your release packet, I'll  send  it  to  all  anonymous
		ftp-sites that support the kind of software your program is. At
		the moment, my list of anonymous ftp-sites contains  over  1000
		entries, and it's expanding all the  time.  I'll  also  send  a
		message to a bunch of Usenet news groups  telling  that  a  new
		release of your program  is  available  and  where  it  can  be
		downloaded. When I've completed  the  task,  I'll  send  you  a
		report with a list of all ftp-sites your program has been  sent
		to.
			
			
	2. Update -service
	
		For a fee of US$50 (Or  US$20  if  a  New  release-contract  is
		valid.)  I'll   do   a   "deep   scan"   (6   WWW-searches,   6
		Veronica-searches, lookthrough  of  the  10  largest  anonymous
		FTP-sites) and search for old versions of your program. When an
		old version is found, I'll send the new version of your program
		to the site where the "oldie" was  found,  accompanied  with  a
		friendly letter to the administrator asking him to replace  the
		old version with the new one. After all this, I'll send  you  a
		report telling that the task is completed. All this will happen
		within 48 hours from the moment I receive your "order".


NOTICE:		As I'm running my service 100%  MANUALLY  (Phew!),  I'm  not
		able to serve very many clients in order to keep my  promise
		about the 48 hour limit. If you're not in such a hurry,  and
                like to save a few bucks, the task will be done within  four
                days, and the prices will be:

		- New release -service: US$108
		- Update -service: US$45
		- Update -service with a valid New release -service: US$18


NOTICE 2:	If your program is for Atari ST, I might  be  interested  in
		doing the work for free, if you give me a registered version
		of your program. This depends completely on the program  and
		on it's registration fee.


NOTICE 3:	Offers like this usually raise a storm  of  protest,  mostly
		because of their "commercial nature",  I  guess.  If  you're
		thinking about writing me  a  letter  full  of  four  letter
		words, please pick up your calculator and check out how  big
		your phone bill would be if  you  sent  manually  a  100  KB
		archive to hundreds of ftp-sites. I'm really  not  going  to
		get rich with this system. If you're ready to take  care  of
		this kind of service for free, just mail me  and  I'll  hand
		the "business" over to you!


IMPORTANT:	As it's impossible for me  to  convince  you  that  I'm  not
~~~~~~~~~~	trying to cheat you, the system works this way: You send  me
		some "registration data" I need to start the  service  (your
		E-mail address, telephone number etc...), and the service is
		active right away. If I  don't  receive  your  "registration
		fee" within two weeks, I'll close the service  until  I  get
		the money. This means, that you have about one week to  test
		me. Also, I'll give you  my  snail-mail  address,  telephone
		number etc., so that  you're  not  "depending"  just  on  my
		e-mail address.


Please mail me for further information and/or opening the  service!  All
kind of feedback is also welcomed and WANTED! Please let me  hear  about
you!


- Jyri
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Jyri Hovila 			 -->	 jhovila@muikku.jmp.fi	   <--

Kasarmikatu 11 B 36           		(hovila@messi.uku.fi)
70110  KUOPIO, FINLAND			(jysky@sci.fi)
tel. +358 (9)71 283 4998		(jysky@northstar.iwn.fi)

http://www.sci.fi/~jysky

Check out my home page for "Internet survival kit" including uu-, xx- 
and base-64 (de)coders, GIF and JP(E)G viewers, WWW-browsers etc. for 
PC, Atari ST & Amiga!
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From: jhovila@muikku.jmp.fi (Jyri-Pekka Hovila)
Newsgroups: comp.software.licensing,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.apple2.programmer
Subject: SHAREWARE AUTHORS!
Date: 1 Jan 1996 22:23:39 +0200
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