BUD DUNHAM wrote in a message to RUSSELL WILEY:
 BD> I appreciate your humor!  Your AKA "Sam the Weasel" does you
Wasn't meant to be humor, and as for my handle Sam Weasle, it is just a silly 
handle. Only used in the message bases because most people in the BBS world 
around here know me as Sam, and not Russell.  Almost any BBS around here, if 
you ask about Russell Wiley, they won't know me, but if you ask about Sam 
Weasle, then they'll say yeah, I know Sam.  So that is put in case someone in 
the area is also reading the messages, they'll know who it is.
 BD> justice.  If I am correct in seeing your posts, your version
 BD> of Searchlight is 4.5 and of course you are stuck where you
 BD> cant incorporate the Internet with it like V5.02 can. Also,
 BD> bugfixes and support are still being provided at Searchlight
 BD> as well as Spinaker and this product is no where near
 BD> FREEWARE.
Didn't say it was, but I would not pay the asking price for a product that is 
no longer in development.  Bug fixes are a fat chance from Frank.  And as for 
me running 4.5, it doesn't matter, I'm switching packages anyhow.  Plus could 
easily upgrade mine for $50 if I wanted to, but won't give Frank another cent 
of my money.  However I did want to pick up a 5.x version for evaluation 
purposes.  See what's going on at http://www.oz.net/~rjwiley if your curious
 BD> To your *DISMAY* I have found someone who is purchasing this
 BD> already. Sorry it's sold.  I would suggest since you are so
 BD> "ALL KNOWING" to call Frank at Searchlight and offer him
 BD> 50bux....
Suckered someone into huh?  Good for you I guess, Bad for them.  But they'll 
find that out over time.  But like I said, I will not give Frank any more my 
money.
 BD> The "FREE" stuff you indicated is *NOT* free...you must be
 BD> one of those ppl who use shareware authors sweat and work
 BD> without paying for it. Just for your reference
That's funny, I ran all 3 RIP programs before even running Searchlight.  
Talking about RipVersi, Ripuzzle, and whatever the 3rd one was.  Maybe it was 
only two.  Doesn't matter anyway, since RIP is pretty much in the past.
 BD> FRED CHAT - 25.00
 BD> SuperSurvey - Free *IF* Multi-Line is bought otherwise
 BD> PAYFOR SPOT - Free *IF* Multi-Line purchase otherwise PAYFOR
 BD> RIPGAME - SHAREWARE - FREE to SLBBS Purchase  - otherwise
 BD> PAYFOR LORD - 20
 BD> Lord2 - 15
 BD> Tradewars - 25
 BD> SLBBS *V5.02 10-node 299.00
Lord is $20, not when I registered, I paid $15.  But like I said, SLBBS is 
not worth $299, it's only worth $50 to me. (This is what it's worth to me, as 
your worth and my worth are two different things)  The rest of which I 
already own, except TW, but I don't care about TW anyways.
Russell Wiley 
Aka Sam Weasle 
russell.wiley@juno.com 
rjwiley@oz.net 
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