Subj : L.O.R.D.
To   : George Pope
From : Donald Tidmore
Date : Sat Jul 07 2007 04:45 pm

> I'm  a little upset with Gameport, as I sent them my $15 to get LORD2
> registered, but never got a code. . . :(
> Sure, I may have complicated matters by not being a BBS, but if that's a
> problem, they should've returned my money order!
> Because I care,
> |<+]::-{)}  (Cyberpope(the Bishop of ROM!))
> ... nfx v3.1 Lighten up, Everybody! Life ain't even PERMANENT!

Write them a nice email message and ask them to either to send what you 
purchased, or to send the money order back to you via registered mail. 
Alternately, you can always tell your Postmaster about the problem and have the 
U.S. Post Office do an investigation.  It is fraudulent for a company to take 
people's money and not give you the product that you are buying, according to 
federal law.  Up to you whether you want to pursue that avenue of course.  But 
it is a definitely good idea to use credit cards for such purpose  if I recall 
correctly since there are credit card company policies that allow you to cancel 
a credit card charge where the product you purchased is never delivered to you. 
 Not sure how that works with the Post office and money orders, or money orders 
that you get from your bank/credit union.  

Never, ever, send cash money to purchase something.  I learned that in college 
Economics class I think, or maybe it was in High school classes.

At any rate, why bother registering Lord II anyway one might say since that 
game has also been abandoned.  When was the last time one can see any work done 
on that door game after all?  Four or more years I think. Planets TEOS is also 
abandoned software that no one is working on. As is Worldgroup Tournament Lord. 
 At least with Wildcat Tournament Lord, you know in advance that the author 
can't do new versions of it due to his (Marcelletti) having lost the source 
code in three or more hard drive crashes.  That dude had MAJOR common-sense 
problems not ever having done backups of his stuff in some fashion - either on 
tape drive cartridge, floppy disks, iomega zip disks, cd-roms, etc.

I wonder how many other programmers out there have lost programs in hard drive 
crashes that had failed to do reliable backups beforehand? Donald

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