#What is SID?
Nick,
Timm may be a great programmer, but his organizational skills are a bit
rusty. I tried to become a beta user on his first BBS, but he was planning
to move shortly, so I wrote down his new number and waited. Unfortunately,
he listed the wrong number on BBS, so it took some time to find the right
number. Once I contacted him via BBS he said he would let me beta test it,
and I would receive something in the mail. First he forgot to mail me the
stuff, then he was having problems getting access to a laser printer.
Finally I got the letter, which was a short demographic form (that could
have been done on his BBS). It also said in his letter that if I sent back
$3 with th eform, he would mail me a copy of the latest beta version. That
has been more than a month ago!
His BBS has been down since then, and I have received no response from him
(no disk, no note, nothing).
It's not the $3, it's just that I feel a bit "yanked around". I'm sure
he doesn't mean anything by it, and that SID is more a labor of love than a
professionally run software company. My letter probably fell thru some
crack (the same place his BBS went). I hope he finishes SID and become
"reachable" one of these days…
-RSL-