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 Message 339 
 NANCY BACKUS to KURT WEISKE 
 Re: bluewave 
 14 Nov 15 15:29:00 
 
-=> Quoting Kurt Weiske to Mark Lewis on 11-13-15  09:43 <=-

 KW> Re:  bluewave
 KW> By: mark lewis to Nathan Prugh on Thu Nov 12 2015 12:38 pm

 ML> his brother attempted to keep things going but was unable to do so
 ML> so BW became abandonware...

 KW> Since BBS operators are one of the larger users of abandoned software,
 KW> we should probably come up with a definition of abandonware.
 KW> No updates for 5 years, invalid email or mailing address? No
 KW> forwarding address available?

BW would meet all of the above... yet it still is quite workable, even
if no longer registerable...  :)

And there are still those that do work with the software to keep it
usable, even if they are doing it without the sanction of the author(s),
who are, as stated, no longer reachable...  :)

ttyl     neb

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