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Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal
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In article <ln23cq$ih3$2@dont-email.me>,
 Darrin "Doc" O'Leary  <droleary@2q2014.subsume.com> wrote:

> For your reference, records indicate that 
> android <here@there.was> wrote:
> 
> > Apparently you've fixed something in your code. The post looks OK.
> 
> I added a header that some software might look for before decoding messages
> properly.

There you go. You could! Well Done!!! Now it's useful...
> 
> > Now 
> > put your app on the market and be done with it. If it's contributing 
> > something new or are better than existing offerings people outside your 
> > immediate family might pay for a license to use it!
> 
> There’s no point in that.  Dozens of newsreaders have come before me and
> demonstrated that a commercial market *does not exist* for Usenet.  My
> market test right now is this Indiegogo campaign.  If it gets nowhere close
> to $20K, then there is simply no point in me investing hundreds or
> thousands of more hours into polishing up the code I have to an app that
> anyone can use.

I seems like a working product to me. Why don't you post a time limited 
beta for testing?
> 
> > It's not like we can't live without your efforts in this area. There are 
> > other working Usenet/NNTP clients for the Mac out there...
> 
> And here you demonstrate quite well that you know exactly how unlikely it
> is that even a $10 newsreader would draw a substantial, paying audience.

I think you can ask at least $25 for a good one. Maybe more.
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