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Subject: Re: Thank you, the journey so far

Author: Bert Seifriz

Date: 12:01:06 05/08/99

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On May 08, 1999 at 09:38:04, William Bryant wrote:

>On May 08, 1999 at 00:10:23, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>
Postings like yours were here before: "I have developed a program
when you want it send me a little email."
I do not want to make too much noise, but the special chess freeware page
on gambitsoft.com has more than 150 000 requests per year. This is certainly
less than Yahoo has per day.
But I doubt that you get many email requests with just one single posting
here. So there are basically 2 possibilities: You want to give your
program to a limited group of perhaps 15-20 people, then post it
once like you did here already. Or secondly, you want to offer your program
to thousands of visitors and you put it on gambitsoft.com, for example.
There is no problem of putting a readme file in with author's instructions,
email address etc. so that an author can get feedback.
Maybe this is plain advertising here and unwanted. So delete it.
But it is also nothing but the plain truth.
I cannot understand, for example, why the author of the Green Bishop said
he would prefer to have his progam for free download on his homepage only.
I very much doubt if any of you would know the homepage of the Green Bishop
by heart. I doubt that many have heard about the Green Bishop. I doubt
that there is any advantage in keeping the Green Bishop on a secret homepage
somewhere in the world wide web, so that a lonesome chess aficionado might
step on it by chance some day.
Think about it. And be that as it may, it had to be said here.
Nice Sunday, Bert




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