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In article <833407651snz@smof.demon.co.uk>
           tim@smof.demon.co.uk "Tim Illingworth" writes:

> SmofList, on the other hand, has an incentive to register (it puts
> the phrase "(Unregistered Evaluation Copy)" in the X-Remailer: line
> of everything it sends out until you register). From about July to
> December last year, SmofList registrations paid for the cost of my
> Demon subscription, the phone line and phone calls. In January, it
> paid for my Cix and CIS subscriptions as well.
> 
> Then Demon started reselling Turnpike effectively. From February to
> May, I've taken maybe L60. Since TP won't allow the use of addons,
> the market for addons is dead. I was intending to do a version of
> SmofList for Windows: I don't see any point now. It'll never come
> close to repaying its costs, and I don't need it myself.
> 
> 
> Basically for shareware: if you don't need it yourself, don't bother.
> If you do: don't rely on it for income.

Good advice, I think.

While I have a copy of Turnpike, I prefer the DOS software.  I don't 
like to rely on a program that uses compressed data files for storing 
text.  Even Word for Windows leaves the actual text in readable form, in 
amongst the formatting info.

I've also managed to get a working Linux set-up, but KA9Q still seems to 
have an edge.  Being able to run a crude killfile function to prevent 
stuff being downloaded is something which KA9Q does without a lot of 
effort.  It's possible with a Linux system, but it isn't out-of-the-box 
possible.

Meanwhile, I have one very short, crude, program, written in Turbo 
Pascal, which strips out the spurious blank lines I'm getting in some 
telnet logfiles.  It records 0d 0d 0a as the end-of-line.  My program 
works, but I think I'd have to pay people to take is :)


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