[arachne] Re: Arachne for Windows

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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:38:07 -0400 (EDT), ewalt@xxxxxxxx wrote:

Sam,

> Ray Andrews said:

>> True, it probably never should have been thought of as a money maker.

> Why not? MP did actually make some money with Arachne in the early
> days. He sold a number of commercial licenses and I think he did ok
> for awhile. What's wrong with making a living from your work? But the
> environment in which it was possible to  have commercial clients for a
> graphical DOS browser didn't last long.

Oh, I didn't mean that, of course a comercialy viable Arachne would have
been great. I'm just saying what you say in your last sentance -- it
couldn't last.

> I guess the fact that Arachne is still lurching forward, baby step
> by baby step is something of a minor miracle. Kudos to you guys who
> are making it happen.

Yup, we are still plugging away. Today I started work on a 'white list'
for emails -- a way of seperating known good emails from the rest, 
mostly spam.


Regards,


Arachne user
.

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