On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 15:19:40 +0000, PoP
wrote:

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 14:03:09 +0000, derek
wrote:

I found Mailwasher PRO was hogging the cpu and the end of the 30 days
trial came around so I couldn't investigate further.

You could always buy a license.


Not while it ends up using 100% of the cpu time on an Athlon 2k/512k
machine if left running 2 days. A lot of shareware is "Shovelware",
there are exceptions. You will note I am using the paid for Forte
Agent.

I'd have to use Spam Interceptor's paid for service at $9.99/yr to do
that so I'll wait and see what Demon Internet's free offering is like
in the new year.

Goodness gracious! For the first year only a cost of about 50p per
month, less than 2p per day,

??

and free every year after that,

?????

and it's
not worth stopping the spam?


Where d'ya get that idea?

* Like I said *, it's a service for which they charge $9.99/yr. Not a
lot, I know, but I think twice before I set up another DD/continuing
authority. I already pay Demon Internet a tenner a month and their
free spam blocking service starts soon after " * Winterval * ".
However, I was rather curious as to why it could not stop the well
known Microsoft security update worms/virii, unless I took their paid
for option, but could stop every one of the Viagra /toner
cartridge/credit card /Nigeria spams.etc which arrive stochastically.

I'm always surprised that people expect to be able to use software
forever without paying the authors for continued development and
support

Do you continue to pay the designer/developer of your house a
subsistence allowance on an annual basis?

And those self same people find the thought of going off to
work and not being paid for it to be objectionable.....


Being of sound mind, I do.

I suppose I do object to the prices charged by the likes of Microsoft
and other major players, but for the little guys who spend enormous
amounts of time producing quality software I don't think it's too much
to ask for them to earn something for their efforts.


If you, OTOH are inclined to set up DD's/continuing authorities willy
nilly I've got a nice time-share proposal for you on a very famous
bridge, only $9.99/yr. about 50p per month, less than 2p per day,

Limited to the first 10^6 applictions.

DG