BSw

[Steve Marvin]

On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 21:36:43 +0100, Jason Gibbs wrote:

>
>Instead of constantly moaning about BSW, maybe if we encouraged
>companies we know to buy
>copies of PMMail over Outlook, BSW would make some decent money and
>could justify hiring more developers?
>

I've inspired several individual buys, but it's kind of tough when
the employer is madly in love with Outlook <all NT shop>. 

>Maybe BSW could offer some kind of affilate/partner program so that
>people who recommend it can get some kind of commission?
>
>J
>
>
>>
>>We are very interested in getting the list, or at least making the
>>information regarding ours available on the mailing list here when it
>>is begun.  
>>
>>Currently there is work being done on the mailservers that BMT Micro
>>hosts and a list will be up within the next 24 hours.  This is
>>something that Thomas has told me get started on a few days ago and
>>will be taken care of shortly.  At this time there are two separate
>>lists (OS/2 and PMMail 2000) where the traffic for the most part has
>>been extremely low the new list will merge these two into one list.
>>
>>Trevor has agreed to take on administrative duties for the list when it
>>is started.   
>>
>>
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>jimmy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:30:52 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>    Trevor, Jimmy, you're both still on so you can forward this to Thomas, I'm
>>>tired of dealing with him.  This is another BS move by BSW.  This list across
>>>its two hosts (rpglink.com and the one previous to it) has been the place for
>>>PMMail support long before BSW was ever in the scene.  It gets off-topic at
>>>times but it is the only community PMMail has.  If he wants to shaft that
>>>community, so be it, but let's not mince words about it.  I think it is quite
>>>clear that BSW doesn't give a damn about its current customer base and would
>>>much rather it would disappear.  If that isn't the case then BSW would not be
>>>dropping an official presence here without providing some means to transition
>>>people to someplace that will have an official presence.
>>>
>>>    Vague directions to a lame-duck website is not a good faith effort to
>>>transition the community from one source to another.  What is a good faith
>>>effort is speaking with the list administrator to obtain a copy of the
>>>subscription list and an orderly transition from one list to the other through
>>>a changing of the reply-to header would be negotiated.  I am the list
>>>administrator and no such request has come.
>>>
>>>    BTW, if anyone is worried about privacy issues they need only look at the
>>>welcome letter that was sent to everyone when they subscribed. The first
>>>paragraph contains the following verbage, "If, in some future time, someone
>>>creates a PMMail list on a server with more bandwidth the user list from this
>>>mailing list will be forwarded to the administrator of that list so,
>>>hopefully, everyone will not get lost."  I've never hidden the fact that the
>>>user list would be forwarded to another list.
>>>
>>>    Thomas would know that /if/ he had subscribed.
>>>
>>>    Yeah, I'm just a bit upset again.
>>>
>>>--
>>>         Steve C. Lamb         | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
>>>         ICQ: 5107343          | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
>>>-------------------------------+---------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>Jimmy S. McCorquodale, Jr.
>>jimmym@blueprintsoftwareworks.com
>>
>>Blueprint Software Works, Inc.
>>http://www.blueprintsoftwareworks.com
>>Sales: 800-603-5684  /   910-452-4787 
>>Fax: 910-452-4046
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>