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Subject: Re: Thank you, the journey so far

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 13:20:13 05/08/99

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On May 08, 1999 at 15:01:06, Bert Seifriz wrote:

>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

Ok Bert,
can I place my program Terra on Gambitsoft?
How do I proceed?
Terra is quite good but not the best out there...
//Peter




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