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   Message 1,491 of 1,697   
   Robert Wolfe to Marceline Jones   
   Re: KityMail   
   27 Mar 21 20:41:28   
   
   TID: PX/Win v7.0 PX28-1176M   
   MSGID: 1:116/18 0476075e   
   TZUTC: -0500   
   ->  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.    
       
   ... Welcome to the SICK and DEMENTED Taglines Conference.    
   --- Wildcat! v8.0.454.10 (May 26 2020), Editor Mod v2.1    
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