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GoldED 

GoldED is a full-featured mail/news reader for Fidonet and Internet. It is highly configurable, using plain text files. It supports a wide variety of messagebase formats, including JAM, Squish, *.MSG, Hudson, Goldbase, PCBoard, WildCat! and AdeptXBBS. GoldED is available for many platforms: DOS, DOS 32-bit, OS/2, Win32 and Linux. Currently GoldED runs only as textmode, but GUI versions are also planned.

The source release is currently at version 3.0.0 , but the the latest binary release is still at version 3.00.Beta5 . The source code for 3.0.0 and the in-development 4.x is released under the GPL and LGPL licenses. Binaries for 3.0.0 will appear at a later date. You can also browse the source code in a CVS tree.

The opening of the source does not mean that I'm stopping development of GoldED, but because of changed circumstances in my life, I can no longer spend as much time as I would like on development. Sometimes not even fixing the simple bugs and easy features. Additionally, I have now become economically independent of income from GoldED key sales. But most importantly, over the years I have become more and more facinated with Open Source software such as Linux, and promised myself that one day when I either became unable to develop GoldED sufficiently and/or I became financially independent of income from GoldED, I would release the sourcecode. This is the promise I'm now honoring.

• The version number scheme has been changed to "linux kernel style", such as 3.0.0, where the first number is the major version, the second is even (0,2,4,..) for stable versions or uneven (1,3,5,..) for potentially unstable versions, the last number is the release number.
• The source is released as 3.0.0. A new source branch will be created later with version number 3.1.0, where all more experimental development on the 3.x.x versions will happen. Well-tested fixes and features might be transferred to the 3.0.x branch, so that 3.0.x will be improved in a stable manner.
• Source is made available both as tarballs/zips, built on a regular basis, and via a CVS server. The CVS server will be read-only to most, but a core group of developers will get access to committing source directly to the CVS. At this moment, the core group consists of myself and Dirk A. Mueller, but we are looking forward to opening up for more, when we see quality patches from interested developers. We will be accepting patches for the source, but we cannot guarantee speedy inclusion (or even final acceptance) in the official source. In the mean time you can of course run your own patched version and even distribute binaries, as long as you make your patches available under GPL, LGPL or an Open Source license and clearly mark your version as non-official.
• Binaries. Due to lack of time, there were no binaries with the first 3.0.0 source release, sorry. You are of course welcome to compile the source yourself or run a binary compiled and made available by someone else. The official binary GoldED 3.0.x Public Release will appear as soon as I have time to compile it. There will be binaries for all the platforms as usual, except that the key checker, nag screens etc. are removed. Note that because we release the source before the binaries, the final Public Release might end up having version number 3.0.7 or more, depending on how much time that goes by and how much more work that needs to be done and how much response we get from developers hacking away at the source :-)

If you registered or upgraded recently, and now feel that this is just too much and want your money back, please reconsider. I'll be doing a lot of work to ensure that this Open Source project gets going, integrating patches and so on. In some ways it's even more work than before, but I'll be happy to do it, because GoldED will be improved faster by the patch contributions than if I had to do all the work myself. Please consider your registration or upgrade as a contribution to help me do this work, and rest assured that you will now be getting a lot more than you bargained for. If you still want your money back, I'm prepared to offer a refund. A little known fact is that I have a 90 days satisfaction guarantee, as stated in the license.doc in the 2.50 distribution (see excerpt below). I'm extending this guarantee back to the date when I started selling 4.x keys. If you still want the refund, please write to me at refund@goldware.dk and I'll arrange the refund. Please be patient. I cannot guarantee that I can give you the refund right here and now, since I have other bills to pay, and for economical reasons I'll probably want to wait until I can process all refunds in one fell swoop (and save on currency conversion costs). Please don't ask the reg.sites for the refund, they already sent the money to me. Those who paid using the ShareIt service and still haven't got their key, please ask ShareIt to refund your money NOW. I already told them a month ago to stop selling it, but apparently they kept selling it even after that :-( If you paid via ShareIt AND got your key from me, but now want the refund, please contact me at refund@goldware.dk .

3.  Satisfaction Guarantee. If you are dissatisfied with any product
    you buy from us under this Agreement for any reason, you may
    return it at any time up to 90 days after purchase and we will
    give you a full refund. Refunds will be based on the price you
    paid, less shipping costs. You must contact us before returning
    any product for a refund. This satisfaction guarantee does not
    apply to multi-system licenses for more than 10 computers, or to
    purchases of more than 10 individual copies at one time.

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GoldED 4.0 - The Next Generation

• Totally rewritten message handling. Much faster and handles large messages with ease. Supports Unix mailboxes and news spools directly.
• Complete offline and online internet mail and news reader capabilities, including full MIME support and attachments. Supports very flexible killfiles.
• Advanced search capabilities, using regular expressions, wildcards, fuzzy search and plain text search in combination with logic expressions.
• New configuration reader with increased flexibility and new rule-based area grouping system.
• Menued configuration.
• Rule-based automatic actions a'la killfiles.
• Addressbook.
• GUI.

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Author Contact 

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Links

• Check out my personal homepage.
• Another place to look for GoldED files is on Bob Juge's ftp.juge.com in the U.S.A. Note however, that I don't maintain the directory on that site myself.
• Fidonet Technical Standards Committee - FTSC

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