Re: Kill/Lawyers

[nsivin@xxxxxxxx (Nathan Sivin)]

Before posting detailed brochures to the list, may I suggest that
TG simply prepare a list of its XyWrite and related products,
with a couple of sentences describing each one, with information
such as system requirements and price, and post that. It ought,
in fact, to be available for future subscribers to download, and
I will see that it is.

I might mention that PC-Write, a small shareware word processor
that I still use at least once a day, used to publish and
circulate to all its registered users a small catalogue that
listed not only everything it made, but every utility and related
program made by someone else that it recommended for use with it.
 Most users welcomed it, and many such as myself used it, because
the company was able to offer discounts on dictionaries, grammar
checkers, screen grabbers, etc., and undoubtedly made enough
profit on it to make it worth while. At the same time, this got
the word to a lot of people about which programs worked best with
it.

Something to think about, perhaps.

-- Nathan Sivin
History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104-3325