tdn@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Thomas Newton) (08/16/86)
I sent a message a while back to the people who wrote the Lockout accessory,
mentioning some of the comments that appeared here (namely, the comments about
functionality -- I don't remember saying anything to them about advertising).
The reply they just sent back follows.
-- Thomas Newton
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From: BEYOND Stuart J. Davison
To: T.NEWTON Thomas D. Newton
Sub: LockOUT responses
Hi! Thank you very much for posting LockOUT v1.0 to the Net. A friend of
ours who is on the Net showed us some of the feedback that you mentioned
in your message in the Mac Freeware/Shareware section of GEnie. Just to
let you know what the status is so that you may write responses to the
people on the Net that had comments about LockOUT:
- We thought long and hard about LockOUT before it was released.
What we came up with was a DA that allows you to walk away from
your desk in the middle of an Application program without having
to worry about someone tampering with your work in progress.
- LockOUT v1.0 is easy to bypass by turning off or rebooting the
Mac, but think about it... If someone turns off or reboots your
machine while your away from it, they must be an a.sh..e anyway!
- We are presently working on a new version of LockOUT that will be
Switcher-Proof and it will also be able to protect hard disks
from being used without the proper passwords.
- We want people to continue to respond to our software with both
suggestions for new features and any negative feedback on the
Free software that we release. Please address any comments or
suggestions to "BEYOND" here on GEnie. Also, you can call or write
us at the address in the About box.
- One final thing... The reason LockOUT v1.0 has "an advertisement"
in it is to let people around the country and the world know that
we write quality software. We would also like to think that we are
giving back some piece of useful software to the Macintosh Public
Domain, since it has given us so many useful tools which we use in
our programming and general work. You may not like the "Ad" but
that is why LockOUT v1.0 and Fast Formatter v2.1 are FREE and not
shareware.
- Look for new versions of LockOUT and Fast Formatter in the coming
months and please continue to give us your suggestions... They
are greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Mike Pell
BEYOND
P.S. PLEASE post the above message on the Net to let the users on there
know that we recognize their suggestions and are presently working
to improve LockOUT and Fast Formatter. Also, please write me back
here on GEnie at "BEYOND". Thanks...
=END=baron@runx.OZ (Jason Haines) (08/24/86)
Could someone post the Fast Formatter mentioned in Beyond's reply to Thomas Newton? Thanks, jason ( baron@runx.oz && jasonh@psych44.su )