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Previously Chris Croughton <chris@keris.demon.co.uk> said:
[I'm going to hopefully answer a lot of tings in this post
to save a bit of bandwidth]
>In article <834238564snz@i-m-t.demon.co.uk>
>           ppint@i-m-t.demon.co.uk "ppint." wrote:
>>    - der, a) i'm a twit; my cheque's in the post; b) mightn't it be
>>    worth while reminding demon customers from time to time - in the
>>    magazine ? - that the ukL 10.00 for ka9q/dis216d is something that
>>    we need to send, rather than can wait for demon to charge, or bill
>>    us, for; and c) possibly, there're quite a lot more people are using
>>    ka9q/dis216d than the 10% demon think...?
>No, you're not a twit.  The original statement *was* that Demon were
>going to take the money for it (this was back in the days when the KA9Q
>software was the only software Demon supplied), and we've been waiting
>almost 4 years for them to do it.  I haven't seen any announcement by

I thought much the same, but that was before I worked for them.
Then it took me a while to get all the salient info. Although I will
admit it wasn't always my highest priority.

>Demon that this has changed, the first I knew of it was the messages
>here from a user who had found it in some obscure (to us oldies at
>least) document.

Well quite. From the sounds of it, either a seperate docs.zip or 
including documentation with the net????.zip files could be in
order. The problem is that we delibrately try to keep net*.zip files
as small as possible to make it quicker for people who are upgrading.

>Now, I admit that I hadn't bothered chasing them either (I think the
>last time I posted a comment on the subject was a year or so ago), but
>an announcement would have been a good idea, and certainly one on
>dis.pc.  I don't know where Demon's 10% figure came from, they certainly
>haven't asked me what I'm using (but no-one ever does include me or
>anyone I know in opinion polls either).

We don't take that many polls, after all we do say you can connect
using whatever you like, now if I can only get a tcp/ip stack for
fresh haddock. Perhaps an entry in a relevant FAQ would be a good
start. AS it seems to be unclear i will talk to Malcolm about
improving the situation, be it a docs.zip some sort of banner in the 
.exe/.zip file or regular announcements. It is something we
could easily /* I hope */ improve.


>Incidentally, what's the state of WinDis?  I thought that was based on
>KA9Q originally (as is TextWin), so it's possible he's owed royalties
>from that as well.  Or Maybe Not...

Now that is an interesting question.
Any ideas anyone??
--
RobertM
Demon Internet Ltd
         "Trust the computer, the computer is your fiend"