Hi Ira CFTW just gets better and better and better, and V3.06 is no exception. Thank you very much for all the effort you put into producing a truly excellent genealogical program. Sure, the "commercial" packages may have lots of fancy bells and whistles, but when it comes to getting the job done they all fall down - none of them come anywhere close to CFTW. And having direct e-mail contact with you is a tremendous asset, one which I greatly appreciate, and I'm sure all the users would agree. Don't be down hearted, Ira! The fact that the wish list is large is simply an indication that the majority of your users are very enthusiastic and excited about the product, and are eager to submit new ideas. Most of the ideas being submitted now are for 'nice to have' features, all building on a solid foundation. And that is a very healthy state of affairs. In my opinion, CFTW in its present state is a very mature and stable product. Thanks again. John Smith South Africa

>CFTW just gets better and better and better, and V3.06 is no exception. Thank you very much for all the effort you put into producing a truly excellent genealogical program. Sure, the "commercial" packages may have lots of fancy bells and whistles, but when it comes to getting the job done they all fall down - none of them come anywhere close to CFTW. And having direct e-mail contact with you is a tremendous asset, one which I greatly appreciate, and I'm sure all the users would agree. > >Don't be down hearted, Ira! The fact that the wish list is large is simply an indication that the majority of your users are very enthusiastic and excited about the product, and are eager to submit new ideas. Most of the ideas being submitted now are for 'nice to have' features, all building on a solid foundation. And that is a very healthy state of affairs. In my opinion, CFTW in its present state is a very mature and stable product. Thank you for your kindness. I try for the most part not to get discourage. But every now and then I wonder why I am still doing this. Then I go take a look at other programs and can't bring myself to move my data over. Nothing works for me like CFT-Win. I guess as I long as I still want CFT-Win for my genealogy, I'll have to keep it up. And in reality, the users do help with their encouragement, although every now and then I do feel a little burdened with some of the demands. Thanks, Ira ------------------------------------------------ Mr. Ira J. Lund E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cf-software.com Cumberland Family Software, 385 Idaho Springs Road, Clarksville TN 37043

Dear Ira, The more users you get, the more demands they will have. In other words, many demands is a sign of a well-accepted program. What did you expect when you wrote a good programm? Kind regards Harvey Nimmo >And in reality, the users do help with their encouragement, although every >now and then I do feel a little burdened with some of the demands. > >Thanks, Ira > >------------------------------------------------ >Mr. Ira J. Lund >E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cf-software.com > >Cumberland Family Software, 385 Idaho Springs Road, Clarksville TN 37043 > > >==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe from CFT-WIN, send an e-mail message to: > [email protected] (for individual messages) > [email protected] (for Digest mode) >Subject: unsubscribe >In the body include only one word: unsubscribe >(Turn OFF your signature file when sending this command) > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com >

Yes I know CFT since early DOS, ver 2 and CFTW3. Great job!! I will update to ver3 soon. Keep up your good work, Ira. regards th. Harvey Nimmo schrieb: > > Dear Ira, > > The more users you get, the more demands they will have. In other words, > many demands is a sign of a well-accepted program. What did you expect when > you wrote a good programm? > > Kind regards > > Harvey Nimmo > > >And in reality, the users do help with their encouragement, although every > >now and then I do feel a little burdened with some of the demands. > > > >Thanks, Ira

G'day Ira, As John Smith says:- > CFTW just gets better and better and better Here Here! Please stay with us and occasionally take a little time off to smell the flowers. Thanks for all your hard work. HURU, Mike CALDER http://members.optushome.com.au/mikecalder/ Researching: CALDER, DIXON, TUSON, GRACIE D&GFHS #2629

On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 I read >CFTW just gets better and better and better, and V3.06 is no exception. >Thank you very much for all the effort you put into producing a truly >excellent genealogical program. I feel sure that all readers of this list can agree to that. But why are we Users of CFTW then so few and why is CFTW so little known by the genealogy public in general. I often see listings, surveys, mailings and articles about genealogy programs where CFTW is not even mentioned. Programs, which in my opinion are much inferior, get a lot more publicity, and they have more Users. Let us all make some efforts to promote our good program. - show it to all our friends, - demonstrate it at meetings in our associations, - write articles about it in our genealogical magazines, - publish it on some of the free CD-roms added to PC magazines. Let us all do our best and let us raise many new Users each of us. When we succeed in that, we may allow ourselves to say that the program we like is also worthy to be called the best. Erik

>But why are we Users of CFTW then so few and why is CFTW so >little known by the genealogy public in general. >I often see listings, surveys, mailings and articles about >genealogy programs where CFTW is not even mentioned. >Programs, which in my opinion are much inferior, get a lot more >publicity, and they have more Users. One reason is that I do no advertising. I spend no money on advertising. The few times I tried never paid and I'd rather spend time on developement and such, rather than time on pushing the product. I'm a programmer - not a marketer. Many of the other programs have big companies behind them to help push and promote their product. I appreciate your suggestions on others to help promote the program. My sales have been relatively flat for 5 years or so (the first 5 being a ramp-up period) and I have kind of gotten used to the idea of being a small player. Even if my sales doubled, it still wouldn't be enough to support me financially and then I'd have twice as much support. I'm not trying to talk anyone out of helping promote the program. All I am saying is that my sales would likely have to increase by multiple amounts in order to turn my company into a fully-fledged company and I just don't see that happening. Thanks, Ira ------------------------------------------------ Mr. Ira J. Lund E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cf-software.com Cumberland Family Software, 385 Idaho Springs Road, Clarksville TN 37043

Hi, All. Here's one for you. Apparently, I must be the only guy in the world having trouble with CFTW. If you will remember, I wrote to the list once before. I'm the guy who keeps getting crashes when CFTW is running. I have tried to discover some rhyme or reason for my problem, but it seems that almost all crashes involve CFTW in one way or another. These crashes usually happen when Microsoft Outlook Express (which I loathe and despise) is running simultaneously with CFTW, but not always. Sometimes CFTW crashes when it is the only program running. I love this program and I would hate to have to switch to another one, but I've just got to find some answers or I am going to be forced to take that most undesirable step. Recently, a friend of mine loaned me a copy of an older version of one of the biggest--if not THE biggest--commercial genealogy programs in the States. Sad to say, I have had no crashes with it--whether Outlook Express is running or not. Naturally, I don't like it as much as I like Cumberland, but if these crashes continue I'm afraid I'm going to lose more of my data than I already have, and something is just going to have to give. Perhaps someone on this list has some new suggestions. If so, lay on MacDuff. I'm all ears--both literally and figuratively. I have the 32-bit 2.50x version of CFTW, which I have upgraded once or twice from the Cumberland web page. I use a Compaq 4508 Presario computer with 2.98 GB of hard drive and 48 MG of RAM (updated from the original 16, I think). This computer also has an Intel Pentium 200MHz processor with MMX technology. I realize that this is a rather outdated model, but I am not in position to buy another computer, so I'll have to make do with the one I've got. Anyhow: I also use Microsoft Windows 95 and a continuously running Norton 4.0 anti-virus with the latest virus definitions. (At one time, I thought this older version of Norton might be causing my problems, but I disabled it and, unfortunately, got the same results. So I don't that's the cause of all my woes. Darn it!) If anyone has any ideas at all, please respond to this message. I am legally blind and simply do not wish to change genealogy programs at this time. As a person of very limited vision, I find Cumberland to be an exceptionally easy and uncluttered program to use. So: any help would be very greatly appreciated. In short, please help save a fellow CTFW user from having to make the switch from "our" program to one of those "other" programs. walt boswell [email protected] P.S. I too think that Ira should be the leader of the free world! He's the best. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Helmer Nielsen" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 3:58 PM Subject: Re: [CFTW] CFTW is the Best > On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 I read > > >CFTW just gets better and better and better, and V3.06 is no exception. >Thank you very much for all the effort you put into producing a truly >excellent genealogical program. > > I feel sure that all readers of this list can agree to that. > > But why are we Users of CFTW then so few and why is CFTW so > little known by the genealogy public in general. > I often see listings, surveys, mailings and articles about > genealogy programs where CFTW is not even mentioned. > Programs, which in my opinion are much inferior, get a lot more > publicity, and they have more Users. > > Let us all make some efforts to promote our good program. > - show it to all our friends, > - demonstrate it at meetings in our associations, > - write articles about it in our genealogical magazines, > - publish it on some of the free CD-roms added to PC magazines. > > Let us all do our best and let us raise many new Users each of > us. When we succeed in that, we may allow ourselves to say that > the program we like is also worthy to be called the best. > > Erik > > > ==== CFT-WIN Mailing List ==== > You can contact the List Manager at: > [email protected] > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >