Subj : Re: KityMail
To   : MARK LEWIS
From : Marceline Jones
Date : Sun Mar 14 2021 16:46:00

 MJ> According to him 25 years and 6 months equates to a 2970 seconds
 MJ> unregistered delay.

 ML> no, that is incorrect... that's not "according to him"... that's a
 ML> defect in the program from using too small a variable type to store
 ML> the number of seconds in... effectively what you are seeing is modulo
 ML> arithmetic also known as rollover where the counter rolls over to the
 ML> lowest end of the range when the value exceeds the maximum value... 

Nah. 

The jerk knew what he was doing. 

He says so himself in the nagware splash screen:

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I now need to anoy you somehow so you will think about registering Kitymail.
I know, I think I will delay starting the program for 30 seconds plus
 10 sec. for each month it's been since you picked up the last demo key
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The key file is dated: 

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12/12/1996  09:13p                  52 DEMO.KEY
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which is 24 years, 1 month and 25 days from when I ran it. (So it appears the file contains a date that is itself at least 1.5 years old).

His short-sightedness is confirmed in the documentation:

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The demo / evaluation versions will have delays and annoying noises built in to encourage you to register KITYMAIL.  The delay on start up will originally be 30 sec but will increase by 10 seconds each month, based on the age of your KITYMAIL key file.  Other delays and annoying noise will occur every 100th message processed.  Newer version of the KITYMAIL key file will be available on the "Someplace to Start" BBS and will be distributed freely to other BBS's.  Feel free to get a newer key for KITYMAIL whenever the delay gets too long for you or better still, why not register KITYMAIL?
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He just wants people to call his BBS to artificially inflate his ego.

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