LEO: Somebody in the chatroom is saying they were using an off-the-shelf program called Kismet.

These off-the-shelf programs offer both adventurous novices and experienced Webmasters the chance to create original and complex sites.

Many off-the-shelf programs cannot be marketed abroad without alteration under current regulations.

It would take some designing, but probably no more than an off-the-shelf program could handle, and the concept might well prove useful at other sites.

But there are relatively few off-the-shelf programs written specifically for OS/2.

Several publishers, including Jostens, base their page-layout and text-generation software on off-the-shelf programs.

Moreover, he said, his group provides more sophisticated tools than off-the-shelf programs devised by discount brokers and fund companies.

If it were, software users would bypass these off-the-shelf programs altogether and go directly to the humans.

On the other hand, he added, many spammers are using inexpensive, off-the-shelf programs and lack the technical skill to circumvent Sendmail's new spam blockers.

Rather than try to customize their software, they began looking for cheaper, off-the-shelf programs that would get the job done with a minimum of fuss.