Existing users, 
As has been pointed out before, unregistered copies will quit after about 20 minutes. It's not as if you are inundadted with nag screens every five minutes asking you to register.
This is how it works
- you run the program unregistred for a time
- the program informs you it will quit
- the Preferences window opens
- the Registration tab is displayed
- the program quits
Would you prefer that unregistered copies simply quit silently, without warning?
As for price: We do not charge for upgrades. Ever.
NewsHunter3 has been around for years and has gone through many incarnations. If you had registered your copy of Baker (an early predecessor to NewsHunter and NewsHunter3) all those years ago, you would still be getting free upgrades. So you can pay 20 or 30 bucks now and then 10 to 15 bucks every few months for "upgrades" or you can register your copy of NewsHunter3 once and enjoy complimentary updates for life.
And plus you get a free registration key for ArcherPro which is a pretty good deal.
NewsHunter3
online & offline Usenet newsreader
Version: 1.0.9
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Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: Mike_Trivisonno_658 Sunday, August 21 2005 @ 10:00 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Over One Year
Recommend Product: YES
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Further Clarifications - Mike_Trivisonno_658
You know what's even funnier, when total strangers feel the need to attack a company or individual rather than provide an objective assesment of the software. This is usually an indication of an individual with an ax to grind.The only reason I am wasting my time here is because the good folks at VersionTracker no longer police the "reviews" that people post. Back in the old days, useless tripe like your comments would have been promptly removed.
Monday, August 22 2005 @ 03:06 AM PDT
Further Clarifications - walt7
I was really trying out your software and didn't particularly care for the nag screen, which you still haven't addressed other than trying to tell other folks that it doesn't exist. I'm making sure everyone knows that it did. And then I saw you giving your own application 5 stars??!!!I gave you an honest review. I posted that it has a nice interface, but also listed what I thought were flaws. But when you blatently lie and say it doesn't have things that it really did (nag screen) you are just asking for it buddy.
Tuesday, August 30 2005 @ 05:29 AM PDT
Further Clarifications - walt7
You also have to wonder about an author who feels the need to keep giving his own application 5 stars to help bring the rating up due to the ever increasing poor ratings users are giving. Justifying the bloated price by offering "free" registration of software I don't want. Big deal. If I wanted them I'd buy them. Don't inflate your price to "give away" other software as well. I've spent way more on better software. I'm thinking Dreamweaver, Office (for two platforms), InDesign, Frontpage '03. I pay a lot for my software, so if I think software is worth a big sum of money, I'm not afraid to spend.On a side note, I always find it interesting when shareware developers always refer to themselves in the plural form. We say this, and we do that. There's no we. "They" do this to make it seem like "their" "company" is so big and important. It also lets blame be separated over more people, and not just the one person trying to defend the shareware. I've known 2 people personally who did this. I always laughed. I'm assuming this is the case here. A big company wouldn't misprice shareware like this, nor would feel the need to justify their shareware on these forums. But that's just my 2 cents.
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Sunday, August 21 2005 @ 04:18 PM PDT