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- From: vporguen@unlinfo.unl.edu (victor porguen)
- Newsgroups: comp.archives.msdos.d
- Subject: Re: How to eliminate the SECOND Telix nag screen
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 06:09:50 GMT
- Organization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln
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- Keywords: Telix Shareware Crippling Screen Telecommunications
-
- Writes blunden@ccu:
-
- > >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?
-
- Don't know. Ask for a vote.... but among USERS, not authors.
-
- > 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.
-
- If they were polite and unobtrusive, they wouldn't be nag screens.
- WHat we are objecting to is the obtrusiveness and the impoliteness.
-
- > 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).
-
- That's a legitimate consideration and concern. If the distribution
- you mention is illegal, it can be stopped by writing to the District
- Attorney of the jurisdiction where it is occurring. Not by
- bombarding ME with nag screens upon opening and closing the darn
- thing.
-
- And if the distribution you mention IS legal, then you have no cause
- to complain about it.
-
- > The best way to get rid of the nag screens is to register ---
- > period.
-
- Please think again - if your advice were carried out, we would have
- to register literally hundreds of programs just to get rid of their
- nag screens, regardless of whether we want to use them or not.
- You're not making any sense here, I'm sorry to say.
-
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