Re: Apple II Oasis

[pausch@saafNOSPAM.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <39e06e5c_1@news3.prserv.net>,
Tom Zuchowski <tzuchow@attglobal.net> wrote:
 
 
> Well, I decided not to register this fine program after all.
> 
> When I went to the online registry, it tried to charge me an additional
> $6.00 fee if I paid by check rather than give my credit card to some
> random web site.
 
I don't think you need to be that paranoid about leaving out your
credit card number.  I've done that many times for about a decade now
- not to "random" sites but to sites I decided to trust.  Before ca
1994 I sent it to email addressed instead -- unencrypted, over the
Internet (back then, the Internet was, by today's standard, a very
decent place though).  So far I've encountered no ill effects from
doing this.
 
> This, IMHO, is a rip-off.
> 
> To be sure, if the registration fee is ever lowered to $25, I will pay ASAP.
 
The registration fee IS $25 !!!!  I registered this program myself some
2 days ago, and paid only $25.  Yes, I gave them my credit card number
and it worked fine -- within about 15 minutes I had my registered version,
MUCH MUCH faster than if I had messed with checks.
 
Don't be that paranoid about giving out your credit card number over
the Internet!  It's probably riskier to pay by credit card on a
restaurant -- but perhaps you refuse to do that either....
 
 
> Meanwhile, I'll just continue to use the unregistered version.
 
Then you need to restart it every 20 min......
 
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