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Article #496Re: Shareware? Phooey :-(
From: Neil Bothwick
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 00:00
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 00:00
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Dave Beames said, > Neil Bothwick (postmaster@wirenet.co.uk) wrote: >> Dave Beames said, >> > about is that, having posted this stuff, he should then walk away without >> > leaving a forwarding address. >> >> Who's to say he didn't. It was over four hears ago, who knows how many >> occupants that address has had since then. > I'm to say he didn't :-) > I'm not talking about his email address, His email address is irrelevant, since you didn't use it before sending the money :( I was talking about his snail mail address. > but about the fact that he > couldn't be bothered to change the contact address(es) given in his > wossname on Aminet. If he'd left the Amiga, especially if no more registrations were coming through to remind him of it, he may well have forgotten all about it. It doesn't help you, and I can understand you feeling annoyed about it, but shit happens. It's easy to see with hindsight, but I'd never send cash to an old address without checking it out first. Like much of life, it's a learning experience. I hope this one wasn't too expensive for you. Neil -- Neil Bothwick - New Media Editor, Amiga Active Magazine http://www.wire.net.uk http://www.amigactive.com -- Q: How many builders does it take to change a light bulb? A: "If only it was just the light bulb......we'll have to replace the ceiling and..........."
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1160fd,73b5cbb790d1f6f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1160fd,public From: "Neil Bothwick" <postmaster@wirenet.co.uk> Subject: Re: Shareware? Phooey :-( Date: 1999/10/27 Message-ID: <1465.969T1486T6264232neil@wire.net.uk> X-Deja-AN: 541134110 References: <9910212357.0kzh@beames.demon.co.uk> <1005.965T2686T6566465brad@pianosa.freeserve.co.uk> <9910232217.0l1p@beames.demon.co.uk> <767.968T1520T5584546neil@wire.net.uk> <9910262153.0l4a@beames.demon.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: news@u-net.net X-Info: The UK's first Amiga-only Internet Access Provider X-Trace: newsr2.u-net.net 941017582 194.119.174.218 (Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:46:22 BST) Organization: Wirenet Amiga Internet NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:46:22 BST Newsgroups: demon.tech.amiga