Powerbasic

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Wed May 30, 2007 12:15 am

GeoTrail wrote:
Maybe you should do the same with them Fred?

I second this. I have not registered for any product there, yet i get mails. Last time mr Bob wanted me to tell my friends about powerbasic. To make the community bigger. for FREE???

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Wed May 30, 2007 12:36 am

Interesting. Out of the blue I got one as well just a couple of days ago. Never before (and never registered anything there).

Wonder how they are getting the email addys?

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Wed May 30, 2007 12:40 am

gebe wrote:I also asked to be removed from their list ,to no avail.

I've heard of some people having that problem with them. It's too easy to get on their lists but hard to get off.

Fred wrote:The strange stuff is i'm getting theire newsletter as well, while i never registered the product.

You don't have to be a customer to get the Gazzette.

Dare wrote:Wonder how they are getting the email addys?

Hmm... Did you ever register on their forum to post messages? It wouldn't surprize me one bit if they trolled their forum membership database for new e-mail addresses to send marketing e-mails (SPAM) to.

Probably the simplest solution, if you don't want their stuff, is to just add them to your blocked senders list.

Brice Manuel · Post by **Brice Manuel** » Wed May 30, 2007 12:41 am

netmaestro · Post by **netmaestro** » Wed May 30, 2007 12:42 am

Dare wrote:Wonder how they are getting the email addys?

I imagine this explains it. I threw this in the trash, I'd never supply them with any names, but I imagine some people did:

Snippet from PowerBasic Email wrote:How about it? Will you tell a friend about PowerBASIC? I hope so.

We'll make it easy for you to "Share the Power"! {smile} Anyway,
here's the plan... You give us a name (or a few names), and we'll
send just one short, informative e-mail under your name and ours.
We won't follow up. We'll never use their e-mail again, unless they
choose to sign up.

So, Share the Power! Just GoTo...

Tipperton · Post by **Tipperton** » Wed May 30, 2007 12:47 am

Snippet from PowerBasic Email wrote:How about it? Will you tell a friend about PowerBASIC? I hope so.

We'll make it easy for you to "Share the Power"! {smile} Anyway, here's the plan... You give us a name (or a few names), and we'll send just one short, informative e-mail under your name and ours. We won't follow up. We'll never use their e-mail again, unless they choose to sign up.

So, Share the Power! Just GoTo...

Shameless!

I don't care what they promise, unless the owner of the e-mail address gives me permission to share it, I would never give anyone's e-mail address to anyone else for any reason.

Brice Manuel wrote:I would not be shocked if he harvested them from competing programming forums :roll:

Only problem I see with that is they'd either have to gain access to the member database of the forum or your e-mail address would have to be viewable.

Dare · Post by **Dare** » Wed May 30, 2007 12:59 am

netmaestro wrote:
Dare wrote:Wonder how they are getting the email addys?
I imagine this explains it. I threw this in the trash, I'd never supply them with any names, but I imagine some people did:

Snippet from PowerBasic Email wrote:How about it? Will you tell a friend about PowerBASIC? I hope so.

We'll make it easy for you to "Share the Power"! {smile} Anyway,
here's the plan... You give us a name (or a few names), and we'll
send just one short, informative e-mail under your name and ours.
We won't follow up. We'll never use their e-mail again, unless they
choose to sign up.

So, Share the Power! Just GoTo...

Ah. That probably explains it.

Maybe I should have read the thing before discarding it.

thefool · Post by **thefool** » Wed May 30, 2007 8:29 am

Thats the email i'm talking about..

garretthylltun · Post by **garretthylltun** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 10:42 pm

Interesting.. all of a sudden there's this 10 page thread named "..." here in the "Off Topic".. I go to see whta was so interesting that it took 10 pages in less than a day since I didn't see it yesterday.. And I see that Brice has edited his every post within this thread to read merely "..."

What's up with that?

Derek · Post by **Derek** » Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:45 pm

Look at the date two or three posts above, this started quite a while ago, that's why you hadn't seen it. It's an old thread.

BriceManuel · Post by **BriceManuel** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:13 am

It would appear Chris has hijacked yet another thead on another forum that has nothing to do with PowerBasic just to pimp EZGUI.

He does this all the time on the PowerBasic forums (hijacks threads about other GUI designers) and used to do it on the old Pyxia, Ionic Wind and Coding Monkeys forums:

http://www.codingmonkeys.com/index.php?topic=1338.0
http://www.codingmonkeys.com/index.php?topic=1283.0

In particular, this one was the stuff of legends. It ranks right up there with the old "show me da codes" thread:
http://www.codingmonkeys.com/index.php?topic=1318.0

gebe · Post by **gebe** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:53 am

I was STUPID enough to buy this one !!!

There are plenty "wrappers" for Power Basic in fact this one is the most expensive one (like its base), ergo the intense need for pimping.,,,,

I use Pure Basic (cheap wrapping paper)==>> BEST value for money

and RosAsm (assembly) cheaper stil....

after spending thousands....

Development is much faster with Pure Basic .....no headhaches , no expensive follow-ups every year or 2.

No need for EXPENSIVE add ons.....

The other ones are value for moanyng.

Some non professional users here are more professional than some professionals.

gebe

BriceManuel · Post by **BriceManuel** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:04 am

perhaps a lonely mod could lock this thread?

gebe · Post by **gebe** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:16 am

Why ?

Changed your mind ??.....

I did'nt

gebe

BriceManuel · Post by **BriceManuel** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:21 am

No, not about EZGUI, but the thread was long dead, until Chris hijacked it. Knowing Chris unless the thread is locked, we will have another 10 pages being posted telling us why we must have EZGUI and how it is more superior to anything else on the market.