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 ML> there's no need for name calling, really...

I will describe him as a contemptibly foolish person instead (aka JERK).
 
 MJ> He says so himself in the nagware splash screen:

 ML> there's nothing wrong with that... many programmers did similar and
 ML> still do, today... 

Which is why a lot of old shareware is useless today.

 MJ> His short-sightedness is confirmed in the documentation:

 ML> what short-sightedness?

The kind that makes programs useless after 25 years.

 MJ> Newer version of the KITYMAIL key file will be available on the
 MJ> "Someplace to Start" BBS and will be distributed freely to other
 MJ> BBS's.
 MJ> He just wants people to call his BBS to artificially inflate his ego.

 ML> for some reason, you seem to have missed the last part of that
 ML> sentence... "will be distributed to other BBS's[sic]"... 

What good is that when those BBS's no longer exist.

 ML> in any case, if the software doesn't meet your needs, don't use it...
 ML> complaining won't change anything... 

Complaining did change something.

KITYMAIL.BAT:
==================================================
date 01/01/1996
wcrun -r kitymail %*
==================================================

(Now it just stalls for 10 seconds instead of 50 minutes).

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