steveg@SAIC.COM (Stephen Harold Goldstein) (02/07/90)
>From: brunix!rjd@uunet.uu.net (Rob Demillo) >Subject: ST S/ware Rental Places >Message-ID: <28201@brunix.UUCP> [writes about organized piracy by Atari 'User Groups'] If you're ever in the Washington D.C. area, stop in on a NOVATARI meeting - 2nd Sunday of the month, in Springfield VA. You should be pleasantly surprised. We exchange useful information, present demos, and sell PD/shareware disks. The only commercial s/w exchanged is sales of used packages w/original disks. We're a user's group, not a pirate's club. If you know of so called user's groups that are only fronts for pirates, I suggest you report them to Atari or any interested software houses and have them shut down. They give all user's groups a bad name. --- Stephen Goldstein steveg@saic.com My first Atari system? A 24K Atari 800, Rev. A ROMS, C(not G)TIA graphics Disclaimer: That's not what I said.
rjd@cs.brown.edu (Rob Demillo) (02/09/90)
In article <9002071529.AA10375@SAIC.COM> steveg@SAIC.COM (Stephen Harold Goldstein) writes: > > >From: brunix!rjd@uunet.uu.net (Rob Demillo) > >Subject: ST S/ware Rental Places > >Message-ID: <28201@brunix.UUCP> >[writes about organized piracy by Atari 'User Groups'] > >If you're ever in the Washington D.C. area, stop in on a NOVATARI >meeting - 2nd Sunday of the month, in Springfield VA. You should be >pleasantly surprised. I am pleasantly surprised already...you are the third response I read regarding other's users group. I'm glad to hear that the situation is reversed in your communities. As to the user group meetings I went to that had massive piracy: I did file a complaint with the FBI. They had me fill out a couple of forms, and that was the last I heard. - Rob DeMillo | Internet: rjd@brown.cs.edu Brown University | BITnet: DEMILLO%BRNPSG.SPAN@STAR.STANFORD.EDU Planetary Science Group | Reality: 401-273-0804 (home) "I say you *are* the Messiah, Lord! And I ought to know, I've followed a few!"
covertr@force.UUCP (Richard E. Covert) (02/09/90)
In article <9002071529.AA10375@SAIC.COM>, steveg@SAIC.COM (Stephen Harold Goldstein) writes: > > We're a user's group, not a pirate's club. If you know of so called > user's groups that are only fronts for pirates, I suggest you report > them to Atari or any interested software houses and have them shut down. > They give all user's groups a bad name. > > --- > Stephen Goldstein steveg@saic.com The Phoenix Atari ST club is dedicated to helping our members use legitimately purchased software. We, too, do not allow pirating of software. Our PHASST sponsored bbs has a 40 meg drive with ONLY PD software. We do not allow piracy. Our Agenda for Staurday's meeting includes: 15 minutes for PHAST Club business Dave Thorenson gives a demo of a GEM Desktop replacement program that he is writing. A first for the NAtion!! First time his program has been demoed!! Dave Thorenson gives a demo of his favorite game PowerDrome 15 minute break 15 minute Question & Answer period Demo of Pratical Solution's Video Key for our 1040ST. Pratical Solutions has an offer out where ST Clubs can get free Pratical Solutions products if they are demoed for the club, and reviewed in the club newsletter. Another demo, time allowing, of a game. So, we don't have time for people to sit and pirate software. All, in all, I think that it is a good agenda. Rich Covert, President PHAST -- Richard E. Covert, Lead Engineer of Software Tools Group AG Communications Systems, Phoenix AZ (602) - 581-4652 TCP/IP: covertr@gtephx UUCP: {ncar!noao!asuvax | uunet!zardoz!hrc | att}!gtephx!covertr
ritchie@hpldola.HP.COM (Dave Ritchie) (02/11/90)
To all, P3ACE (Colorado Springs CO) isn't a pirate club either. Dave Ritchie