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- From: blunden@ccu.umanitoba.ca ()
- Subject: Re: How to eliminate the SECOND Telix nag screen
- Message-ID: <C03Eqs.HnG@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Keywords: Telix Shareware Crippling Screen Telecommunications
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- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:06:28 GMT
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- In article <1homefINNr5l@crcnis1.unl.edu> vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen) writes:
- >
- >The nag screens are obnoxious and offensive. They interfere with
- >my testing of the program.
-
- Am I the only one who thought this statement was laughable?
-
- Seriously, I think there are good reasons for shareware authors to
- put a reminder, or "nag" screen, in their evaluation copies ---
- as long as it's done in a polite and unobtrusive manner. For one thing,
- not everyone gets their shareware over usenet or via internet. There is
- a booming business in selling shareware disks, and in vending machines
- which allow you to download programs onto a floppy disk. There are
- also computer vendors who stuff the PC's they sell with shareware
- programs. (My own PC came with about 20Megs of various programs on it,
- most of which I deleted).
- There is a great temptation for people who acquire their software in these
- ways to think that they have already paid for it, or at least to rationalize
- their use of it with this argument. There are also those people, a majority
- actually, who continue to use a program after the trial period is over,
- and need a gentle "reminder".
-
- The best way to get rid of the nag screens is to register --- period.
-