Author: Bert Seifriz
Date: 22:43:01 05/08/99
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On May 08, 1999 at 16:20:13, Peter Fendrich wrote: >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 Certainly: most people send their programs in a zip file as an email attachment. Some also tell me their homepage or an ftp site where they keep it and from where I should download it. Do not forget to add a readme file where you can write in whatever you find necessary to know about you and the program. Thanks, Bert!
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