Re: Messenger Plus! - Let's focus on another Sacred Cow for a while

From: Brian! (bmtaylor_at_blueyonder.ku.oc)
Date: 10/04/04

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    "PA Bear" <PABear@mvps.org> wrote in message
    news:O2u9rWSqEHA.516@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...

    I'm not replying directly to you, yours is just the post I landed on when I
    hit "Reply Group".

    I have been using MsgPlus since Jan 2003 (Pre C2Media) by a friend of mine.
    The features that MsgPlus provided to the average Messenger user were great,
    and Patchou has gone out of his way to add more features and improve the GUI
    so that more people can use these features even easier.

    I do not install the sponsor on my home PC as it is also the main home PC
    that my kids have access to. While I do not doubt Patchou's word about
    having the C2Media installer cut right down to keep as much of the 'usual'
    stuff out of it, I don't trust my kids (7yr, 5yr & 4yr) not to click on
    something that appears on screen if my back is turned for 5 seconds.

    Since C2Media has come onboard with Patchou I have always installed the
    sponsor program on my initial install, then removed MsgPlus and reinstalled
    it without the sponsor, and I have had no problems whatsoever with
    everything being removed from my fave list and my homepage being put back to
    rights.

    Below is a post I made to the MsgPlus boards.
    ===
    You've got my vote Patchou. I've just had people on a game website
    messageboard giving MsgPlus a slammin, so I jumped in and corrected them
    about the optional sponsor, etc...

    This project makes Messenger worth using. If we waited for M$ to come out
    with the same level or quality of features on their own, I know that I for
    one would be old and grey before that would even happen.

    I freely and openly offer a mirror download link for your program of every
    release since just before MP2! (IIRC), & there is nothing I can read that
    will convince me that I am helping a "software criminal".

    Keep up the work, try to let these attacks against your person pass you by,
    and be the bigger and better man by rising above the level of these ignorant
    bigots that wish to attack you and your work.

    How many people install Kazaa, yet don't complain about the amount of
    garbage it forcibly installs onto a computer? I wonder how many of their
    userbase have written nasty emails with personal scathing attacks against
    the software creator, etc...!

    Plus gives people the option of a sponsor package being installed, yet
    Patchou gets branded as worse than Satan because of it. Gimme a break!

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