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Started by Jyri Hovila
Fri, 05 Jan 1996 17:36
>>> TO SHAREWARE AUTHORS! <<<
Author: Jyri Hovila
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 17:36
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 17:36
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Reply-To: jhovila@muikku.jmp.fi
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 mail 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 "Usenet Survival Kit" including uu-, xx-
and base-64 (de)coders, GIF and JP(E)G viewers, WWW-browsers etc. for
Amiga, Atari ST / Falcon, Macintosh & PC!
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Re: >>> TO SHAREWARE AUTHORS! <<<
Author: Mark Harden
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 18:04
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 18:04
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Jyri Hovila (jysky@sci.fi) wrote: : 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. : <REST DELETED> Is this to become a regular posting ??
Re: >>> TO SHAREWARE AUTHORS! <<<
Author: Phillip Temple
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 19:18
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 1996 19:18
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I'm going to let this one pass :-) The author is obviously UserNet literate. Technically, this service _could_ be used by an Acorn programmer (though of course it won't). It is also gratifyingly short. In message <4cjnjh$70j@tron.sci.fi> Jyri Hovila wrote: > [snip] > 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 mail 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! Clever! > 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. > Would you buy a used car from this man :-) > 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! This post + a web URL, posted to .announce, could just about pass. I could live with it if all commercial posts were like this (with the above conditions). -- _________________________ | Phillip Temple | http://sunacm.swan.ac.uk/~horza/acorn.html |horza@gu228uq.demon.co.uk| FreeNet Starter Pack for web browsing, ftp: |_________________________| freenet_starter_pack0.05b.spk from: on his RiscPC ftp.dsse.ecs.soton.ac.uk/pub/Acorn/freenet/p.temple
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