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To: Gottfried who wrote (47544)	6/3/2001 5:22:57 AM
From: StanX Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

OT Big Time OT Gottfried, I saw your post on Copernic 2001. I was interested on what it was about, as you have guided me to many sites in the past. I went to the site and downloaded the free basic version. I started using this basic version to see how it worked. Later my oldest “Robert” a fifteen year old son, mentioned that he and his friends were thinking of putting a band together. He currently is going to Mountain View High with an A in the clarinet. He mentioned he was thinking of becoming a drummer. Being 47 years old, I thought of Dire Strate’s Money for nothing and the chicks for free. And then during the conversation I thought of the song from Foreigner, “Juke Box Hero”. Both of these songs we about bands starting in the music industry and their success. Keep in mind, that when I mentioned these songs to my son, it was as if the songs were from the moon, no idea. So I tried the Copernic 2001 Basic, and after typing a few words, I found both songs and the actual lyric as text. I song several lines from each song until my son realized that his father was not totally “from a nut house”, “just dated ”. He said, "I understand and went to his room”. I was pleased with Copernic 2001. I then typed my family name and found a site for your ancestry which followed my mother’s family back to the Civil War and my father to the 17th century Europe. I have used dozens of search engineers and web sites, I found this “Copernic 2001” an excellent WEB Search Engine. I will now down-load Copernic 2001 Plus for $40.00 version to see how well it works. I will let you know in a few weeks how it works. Until then “Thanks” I “Like IT” Stan

To: Gottfried who wrote (47544)	6/3/2001 9:45:39 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

Very OT I just got a Handspring Visor Deluxe to replace my Nino 500 (which was always losing data....I was a victim of a 1st gen MSFT product); I paid $199 for the Visor. Looking over shareware on CNET and other sites though, I am finding most of the registration fees are $20-$30; that is 15% of the cost of my entire deivice for a simple program like a Thesaurus! Am I the only one amazed at the prices of these very small apps? They should be $5 or $10(at Most); their size is very small and thus could not have taken very long to write. FWIW, I saw a Visor on sale at Best Buy today for $99. I have a difficult time stomaching the fact that an app could be nearly half the cost of the device itself for something so terribly simple as most Palm apps are. </rant> Brian