Re: Yarn updates unlikely

From: Richard Steiner (rsteiner@skypoint.com)
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 21:18:29 -0600

Here in list.yarn, james@sin.not (James Huang) spake unto us, saying:

><Pine.BSF.3.96.971124104927.2965B-100000@mirage.skypoint.com>, Richard
>Steiner <rsteiner@skypoint.com> wrote:
>
>> When I get home I'll look to see if I have a smail mail address for him,
>> and if I do I *will* send him a paper letter.
>
>I doubt that you can find a snail mail address. Unless you know where he
>lives and check the fon book. He had at one time specifically announced
>that only email messages would be entertained.

Hmmm. In that case, then, I won't bother him via snail mail. But I
wish we knew that he knew that we wished we had the source. :-)

>> I asked about that long ago. No response at all.
>
>And he had also said that Yarn would be freeware in all eternity, or
>something to that effect. Heck, we even offered to pay for the software
>but that was not accepted.

I offered to register it monetarily as well when I first ran into it,
but he nicely said no. At least he responded then! :-)

Oh well. Guess I'll just have to mope. :-)

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