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- P R O B L E M S W I T H S W A P P I N G
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- By Neo Dsn/PCT
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- I have seen MANY articles on swapping,
- and this should be the last one that
- "seals up the coffin" on this subject.
- If you want to argue against what I
- said(and please do!), then write to
- this mag!
-
- The main reason people are looking for
- swappers is to get new stuff. Yeah,
- friendship and longish letters may
- also help, but, admit it, we all want
- the newest wares! The problem is
- though, we all relie on one or maybe
- two contacts who give you the latest
- stuff, and all the rest of your
- contacts give you oldish stuff. The
- problem is(and in the past I have been
-
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-
-
-
- effected) the popularity of your group
- usually suggusts to other swappers,
- what sort of new stuff you get. Take
- for example Perception. The group is
- relatively unknown, but we have some
- amazing swappers!(FX, Cage, Dynamite
- etc) Who get all the new stuff.
- Preconceived notions of PCT have
- already been made, because we are
- quite unknown, thus are swappers, GFX
- artists, musicians and coders aren't
- really given a chance!
-
- Also I have read many an article on
- disk thieves. Disk thieves are
- usually those who are Elite. You know
- the ones who have 70+ contacts, and
- {te{E{<don't bat an eyelid at beginers, or
- those in an unknown group. I would
- agree that if you are a beginer you
- shouldn't really write unless you have
- anything to offer, there's no need to
- waste peoples time! I've also seen
- beginers who send 1990 PD to their
- contacts, and then wonder why they
- haven't replied! Also people may not
- know this, but post does get lost
- sometimes! Or a address is mislade
- etc, so actually the people you are
- branding as disk thieves may not even
- be!
-
- I have heard of some people who
- advertise in VI/GV, get inundated with
- loads of mail and can't afford to
- write back...then why did they bother
- asking for contacts in the first
- place!!(Return postage helps though!)
-
- To round this off. Swapping is a bit
- dodgy, becuase you always have a 50/50
- chance of getting a reply! I would
- recommend people to write to well
- known PD companies for a cool contact,
- or to take a chance and write to
- someone from this mag!!(Hint, hint!)
- Take a ganders at my IFF and ASCII ads
- in this mag!
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- End.
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- {PF