Subj : Re: KityMail
To   : Marceline Jones
From : Robert Wolfe
Date : Sat Mar 27 2021 08:41 pm

->  ML> there's no need for name calling, really...

-> I will describe him as a contemptibly foolish person instead (aka JERK).
->
->  MJ> He says so himself in the nagware splash screen:

->  ML> there's nothing wrong with that... many programmers did similar and
->  ML> still do, today...

-> Which is why a lot of old shareware is useless today.

->  MJ> His short-sightedness is confirmed in the documentation:

->  ML> what short-sightedness?

-> The kind that makes programs useless after 25 years.

->  MJ> Newer version of the KITYMAIL key file will be available on the
->  MJ> "Someplace to Start" BBS and will be distributed freely to other
->  MJ> BBS's.
->  MJ> He just wants people to call his BBS to artificially inflate his ego.

->  ML> for some reason, you seem to have missed the last part of that
->  ML> sentence... "will be distributed to other BBS's[sic]"...

-> What good is that when those BBS's no longer exist.

->  ML> in any case, if the software doesn't meet your needs, don't use it...
->  ML> complaining won't change anything...

-> Complaining did change something.

-> KITYMAIL.BAT:
-> ==================================================
-> date 01/01/1996
-> wcrun -r kitymail %*
-> ==================================================

-> (Now it just stalls for 10 seconds instead of 50 minutes).

-> ___ Blue Wave/386 v2.30
-> --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux
->  * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

Yeah, but the rest of the dates on your system are going to be messed
up.

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