Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 17:02:29 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <9eWdnVQgKbylfg3OnZ2dnUVZ_i2dnZ2d@giganews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1402333349 12106 166.84.1.5 (9 Jun 2014 17:02:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 17:02:29 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:22632 comp.sys.mac.system:60611 Darrin Doc O'Leary wrote, quoting me: > > If you do that well, it'll likely have some value to others. > > And that 'some value' is the sticking point. As I stated, *that* is what > the crowdfunding effort is there to determine. If there is not *enough* > value to others, it remains software that I have written for myself. Unwritten software remains a pig in a poke. How do you think most people will evaluate that? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_in_a_poke > > If earning a living eats into the time you have available, then the > > newsreader will just take more time to complete. > > Time is not on the side of Usenet, and certainly not ones written *for* > the Mac. The Usenet infrastructure is not going anywhere. > If people aren't willing to pony up $10 now, I really don't > expect them to be around to do it after 2 years of waiting. Looking at it with that perspective, they are already gone. The way I see it, though, is if you have something people want, they will find it. Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number