[comp.org.fidonet] FidoNET Newsletter, Volume 5, # 40

pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar) (10/03/88)

     Volume 5, Number 40                                3 October 1988
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                             Table of Contents

     1. EDITORIAL  ................................................  1
        SEA & PKWare - Where's the beef?  .........................  1
     2. ARTICLES  .................................................  2
        My Two Cents Worth on PK vs. SEA  .........................  3
     3. COLUMNS  ..................................................  8
        Let's YACK about The ARC Dilemma  .........................  8
     4. NOTICES  .................................................. 10
        The Interrupt Stack  ...................................... 10
        New IFNA Address for Orders and Memberships  .............. 10
        Latest Software Versions  ................................. 10
     5. COMMITTEE REPORTS  ........................................ 11
        IFNA Treasurer's Report  .................................. 11
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                                 EDITORIAL
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                               SEA & PKWare
                             Where's the beef?


          That's the question that's been bothering everyone recently.
     It all started around  the  beginning  of  the  year  when System
     Enhancement  Associates  sued  PKWare.  From  the beginning, I've
     supported SEA mainly because  I called  SEA and  talked with Thom
     Henderson. Not that many people were willing to do something like
     this. Why? I'm not sure, it sure seemed  an easy  way to  get one
     person's version  of what  was going  on quickly  and easily. Why
     didn't I call Phil Katz? Mainly because I knew Thom  from FidoCon
     '87. I'm  not sure  how much  good it would have done anyway, for
     the past two weeks  no  matter  when  I  call  PKWare,  I  get an
     answering machine.

          What are  my opinions  on the two lawsuits between these two
     companies? Well, first off my  opinions  are  biased.  I consider
     Thom a  friend and  trust him.  While I do not consider his words
     gospel, I usually accept most of what he says. In  this matter, I
     believe that SEA was completely correct to sue PKWare.

          While  I've  learned  a  few  new things about copyright law
     while looking into these lawsuits that  I'm not  entirely pleased
     with, I am capable of understanding why they exist. While many of
     us may not like some parts of copyright law we  may discover upon
     looking into  these cases, it is the law. There are procedures to
     follow in order to change these laws, use  them if  you feel they
     are unfair.

          Hopefully some  of the  articles in  this issue will help to
     convince you over to my way of thinking. If not, so be it. I only
     ask  that  we  take  these  messages  out  of  echomail. They are
     accomplishing nothing and succeeding to excessively annoy many of
     us. Before you enter a message about the lawsuits again, take the
     time and read this edition, call those directly  involved, obtain
     the  documents  from  the  courts,  but  STOP THE COMPLAINING AND
     WHINING!!!  Echomail  can  accomplish   so  much,   why  make  it
     accomplish nothing???


     Dale Lovell
     3266 Vezber Drive
     Seven Hills, OH  44131
     data: 216/642-1034
           1:157/504 aka 1:1/1

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                                 ARTICLES
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     [NOTE: Message modified by Tim Pozar on 29 Sep 88  13:24:02]
     From  hoptoad!cogsci!SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL!KPETERSEN
     From: hoptoad!cogsci!SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL!W8SDZ (Keith Petersen)
     To:   hoptoad!ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU!hoptoad!pozar (Tim Pozar)
     Date: Wed, 28 Sep 1988  11:35 MDT

     [For submission to Fido News special ARC edition]

     Both SEA and PKWare are likely to be in hot water soon.  All we
     want is a PUBLIC DOMAIN archiving system which is immune to this
     nonsense! BTW, ZOO isn't it.  It has a copyright and restrictions
     on distribution.

     DATAPOINT has a trademark (and has had it since the '70s) on the
     word ARC.  As reprinted from a current Datapoint Manual:

     "Attached Resource Computer" is a trademark of DATAPOINT
     Corporation.
     Registered in the US patent and Trademark office.
     "ARC" is a trademark of DATAPOINT Corp.

     Any recent DATAPOINT document has this copyright/trademark
     statement, the document it came from was called "RMS SYSTEM
     ADMINISTRATION UTILITIES" DATAPOINT document Number 50928 Dated
     September, 1985.

     The "RMS Quick Reference Guide" Document No. 61017 contains a
     larger copyright notice.

     A person who is very involved with DATAPOINT and their ARCNET
     configurations said that the Attached Resource Computer is a
     combination of hardware and software, and in fact, they have a
     software program used with ARCNET called "ARC".  He is very
     familiar with DATAPOINT, and said that he will be talking to the
     legal department at the DATAPOINT headquarters in Texas to inform
     them of the lawsuits currently pending between SEA and PKWARE,
     and determine if DATAPOINT wants to pursue legal action of
     their own.

     --Keith Petersen
     Arpa: W8SDZ@SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL
     Uucp:
     {decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz

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     John Herro
     1:363/6


                      MY TWO CENTS WORTH ON PK VS. SEA


     In this controversy,  neither side is 100% right,  but I hope the
     BBS world goes with Phil Katz' new Shareware for several reasons.

     PKxARC is  much,  much faster than ARC.   It also compresses some
     files more than ARC, because it considers Squashing as one alter-
     native.  I'm a Shareware author,  and I'm using a registered copy
     of PKARC to distribute my program  ADA-TUTR,  the Interactive Ada
     Tutor.  I understand that the court order allows registered users
     of PKxARC to continue to use it indefinitely.

     I also understand that  Phil Katz  was ordered to change the file
     extension from .ARC,  which he has done.   After the first of the
     year,  however,  he can no longer distribute the program.  He has
     to come up with another file compression  algorithm.   He expects
     to come up with a new  algorithm  that's  superior  to  ARC.  I'm
     looking forward to seeing his new program!

     Just as ARC has almost completely replaced older schemes like SQZ
     and  LBR,  I  hope that Phil's new scheme will completely replace
     ARC and become the new BBS standard.

     SEA  seems to be leaning toward  commercial  software.  The  only
     reason I won't buy a copy of AXE  is that it's commercial and not
     Shareware.  I'd gladly pay that much  to  register  Shareware.  I
     think  Shareware  is  an idea whose time has come,  and it almost
     completely solves the problem of  software  piracy.   Even if SEA
     keeps  ARC  as  Shareware  for now, who's to say that further im-
     provements won't be commercial,  as happened to Fido?   SEA seems
     to be going in  that  direction.   I  prefer  PK  because I think
     there's  a  greater  chance  that future improvements will remain
     Shareware.

     If Phil's new algorithm is to become the  BBS standard,  a lot of
     software will have to be updated.   Examples are BBS systems that
     can  "look inside"  archives, and "ARCMAIL-like" programs.  Soft-
     ware authors should plan to update as soon as Phil Katz publishes
     his new algorithm.  We changed file compression standards before;
     we can do it again.

     We want the FASTEST and BEST compression to be the standard.  The
     PK  programs have been faster and better than  SEA,  and I expect
     that to continue.

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     Thom Henderson, president
     System Enhancement Associates
     voice: (201) 473-5153
     data:  (201) 473-1991


                   Now That It's Over, What Did It Mean?

     Now that the dust has settled in the first shareware copyright
     case, it is time for SEA to make public the facts that many
     members of the shareware community deserve to know.

     For the record, SEA is a family owned business.  Andy Foray, the
     company chairman, and Thom Henderson, the company president, are
     brothers-in-law.  Irene Henderson, the secretary/treasurer and
     office manager, is Andy's sister and Thom's wife.

     As the creators, publishers and defenders of the industry
     standard ARC file compression format, we have always maintained a
     strong belief in a fundamental concept of shareware -- that
     shareware be distributed for free for all non-commercial use.  To
     this end, we have never, and will never, charge for the use of
     ARC in a non-commercial environment.  We also believe that full
     program sources should be available, at least to registered
     users, and we have always made the full ARC sources available to
     all users.  We have also licensed a great many people to use the
     ARC sources in their own programs.

     We discovered that PKWARE had obtained our source code without
     obtaining a license.  He modified that code so that the program
     ran faster and provided several other enhancements.  However, the
     nuts and bolts of the program were done by SEA.  That is called
     PIRACY, plain and simple.  And this industry has no place for
     pirates.

     We tried to politely ask PKWARE to obtain a license.  He
     ungraciously told us where to go.

     We asked our lawyer what we should do.  He said we were bound by
     law to protect our rights to the trademark and copyrights on ARC.
     If we did not, then anyone could use the ARC trademark and
     copyrights.  It is very much like a candy bar calling itself
     Hershey.  If another company used the Hershey name without
     permission, you can imagine what would happen.

     Also, it should be noted that PKWARE did not live up to the high
     standards set by the shareware industry.  He didn't make his
     source code available.  He sought out our market and competed
     directly for our corporate market by using the funds he had
     received from non-commercial users (whom we would not charge!)
     He authorized ads with false and misleading comparison statements
     to run in the magazines we advertised in.  And he placed those
     ads on the same pages as our ads.  If we did not protect our
     investment in the ARC trademark, we would have lost our
     trademark, our market and our business.  Furthermore, the
     industry would have been left in disarray, as two standards would
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     have emerged.

     So after Phil Katz told us he would not settle this case like a
     gentleman, we were forced to ask the courts to settle it for us.

     We didn't want to go to court.  We couldn't afford the lawyers
     fees.  We couldn't afford the time away from programming the
     updated versions of ARC that will work on other systems, such as
     Unix, Macintosh, and VM/CMS.  And we couldn't afford to create a
     controversy in an industry that we helped to pioneer.  We also
     couldn't afford to create ill will among users -- both our users
     and PKWARE users.  But PKware left us no choice.

     Anyway, the case didn't get very far, thanks to the testimony of
     an expert witness, John Navas.  He looked at the source code of
     both programs and found, lo and behold, that the PKWARE program
     was indeed a blatant copy of the SEA code.

     When Katz heard this, he called us directly -- bypassing the
     attorneys -- and said he wanted to settle.

     We were only too happy to put a quick end to this.  We wanted the
     facts to come out.  Unfortunately, Katz demanded that part of the
     settlement terms be kept under court seal.  We agreed, and we
     probably should not have, but we did because we wanted to end the
     case quickly so we could get back to updating and improving ARC.

     Some of the terms are public: PKWARE cannot distribute the
     program after January 1, 1989, they cannot substantially change
     the program (though they can make bug fixes) and if they receive
     inquiries for the product, they must send out SEA literature.
     Also, PKWARE is prohibited from creating a new program that is
     compatible with ARC or PKARC.

     If those terms sound one-sided, then it only goes to prove the
     extent to which PKWARE felt that it had no legitimate right to
     its program.  After all, why would he give up everything if he
     was right?  He obviously was not above board in this case, even
     though the settlement terms said he was not admitting fault in
     any way (a standard legalese ploy).

     We are a bit perturbed that one of PKWARE's part-time employees
     obtained a copy of the sealed court document, typed it into a
     file along with numerous typos and loaded it onto several
     bulletin board systems.  She also included her own biased,
     editorial opinion on the case and its terms.  While we don't
     believe PKWARE had authorized this action, it obviously violates
     the sense of fair play that we have lived with, at Mr. Katz'
     request.

     Now we are faced with several problems.

     The bulletin board community has heard many comments by people
     who did not possess the facts of this case, and therefore made
     ill informed opinions. Those opinions seemed like fact because we
     did not respond to them while the case was in progress.
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     You are well aware that no party in a legal action can really
     speak his mind while the action is occurring.  Because we didn't
     respond, people assumed that we were wrong.

     Well, we weren't wrong and we won't be silent any more.  We have
     begun responding to the outrageous and outlandish opinions
     expressed against SEA.  We realize that people came to the only
     conclusion possible, given the lack of reliable information about
     this case.

     We will respond to any and every comment about this case.  We
     welcome questions and urge people to call us at our office.  When
     the dust settles, no one will doubt our sincerity in trying to do
     the right thing.


     We'd also like to clear up a few basic misconceptions that have
     appeared on the boards:

      -  SEA waited too long to take action.

         Response: The legal world moves slowly.  First we have to be
         aware of the situation, determine that a violation of our
         copyright existed, try to settle amicably and then take legal
         action.  That takes time.

      -  SEA doesn't upgrade it's program.

         Response: We have updated the program nine times in three
         years.  We have made it available for several other operating
         systems, such as OS/2 and CP/M.  We will continue to upgrade
         the program to benefit all users on all systems.

      -  SEA used the courts when it realized it couldn't compete on
         raw programming talent.

         Response: We have a very good program and one that is getting
         better.  We wouldn't be the defenders of an industry standard
         if we didn't have programming talent to begin with.

      -  SEA is a Goliath pursuing a David called Phil Katz.

         Response:  Phil Katz is a not just a person.  He is a
         company, and a big one at that.  PKWARE is a bigger company
         than SEA, despite the fact we publish four programs.  We
         calculate that PKware currently grosses almost $2,000 a day,
         or about five times what we do.  We challenge him to make his
         audited figures public.

      -  PKWARE must be a small company because we hear there are only
         three employees including his mother.

         Response: We applaud Mrs. Katz and wish her the best of
         success.  We too are a family run company.  Andy Foray and
         Thom Henderson are brothers-in-law and Irene Henderson serves
         as secretary/treasurer.  We have hired a programmer and a
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         license manager.  We didn't do this because we had a windfall
         profit, we did this because we needed to stay competitive and
         to serve new markets.

      -  SEA should have pursued the case to a jury trial so a
         precedent could be set for the industry.

         Response:  We wish we had the money to support our lawyer to
         take this case to a jury trial conclusion.  However, we were
         eating hot dogs every night and had to take on outside
         consulting jobs to make ends meet.  We needed to end this
         case before the legal fees devoured our company.  Besides, we
         weren't out to crucify the guy -- we just wanted him to stop
         stealing our work.


     If there are more questions, be assured, we will respond to them.

     We have also issued a new policy statement regarding the
     licensing of ARC. It has been uploaded to the IBMSW forum on
     CompuServe, the utilities/archivers conference on BIX, and has
     been disseminated to other BBSes as well. The terms probably are
     the most liberal for any licensing policy for any software
     company.  And if that isn't enough, give us a call and we'll see
     what we can work out.

     We welcome the opportunity to better serve the shareware
     community.  We invite your comments and your suggestions.

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                                  COLUMNS
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                                    YACK
                      Yet Another Complicated Komment

                            by Steven K. Hoskin
                        ( STEVE HOSKIN at 1:128/31 )

                        Episode 12:  The ARC Dilemma


     Well, Dale, you asked for it.  Opinions on ARC and the SEA/PKWare
     lawsuit(s).  I'll TRY to keep it on one page.

     I understand SEA has considered  ARC to be its trademark; SEA may
     have even registered such.  That's  fine, but my understanding is
     also that SEA has done  nothing  in  three  years to protect that
     trademark.  I am given to understand that failure to take actions
     to protect  a  trademark  leaves  the  bearer  of  said trademark
     subject to loss of rights to same.

     I understand  that  law  recognizes  that  a  trademark,  even if
     previously registered and accepted, can become generic, and if it
     does so, the bearer  of  the  trademark  loses it.  Monopoly, for
     example, has become generic  in  the  sense that when the average
     person thinks of  Monopoly  they  think  of  the  game and not of
     Milton Bradley  (or  whatever  company  makes  the  stupid game).
     Therefore, Monopoly programs  can  be written without the authors
     being successfully being sued  for  trademark violation since the
     company that makes the game has legally lost the trademark; it is
     now generic.  This fact  has  been  upheld  in at least two court
     cases. (1)

     Has ARC become generic?  If  not,  I'd say it's virtually so now.
     What do YOU refer to  an  archive  as?    Most everyone I've ever
     known calls them ARCs.  "Say,  Steve, what ARC program do you use
     to ARC and deARC your  ARCs?"    "I  use  PKARC because it's TONS
     faster and saves more space, and if I need to I can still use the
     option to make ARCs that ARC can deARC."  If that isn't generic I
     don't know what is.  And THAT came from a REAL conversation.

     I don't mean to say SEA is  wrong  in  this lawsuit (and I hear a
     second one has been filed), but one point stands out clear:

     SEA released source code  to  their  shareware users, opening the
     door to duplicated  procedures  in  other  programs and virtually
     elimating SEA's ability to track  down abusers of that source.  I
     think this fact probably  eliminates  SEA's ability to say it has
     taken sufficient measures to protect "its" trademark.
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     (1)  Shareware, a magazine that discusses and hosts
     advertisements  for   shareware,   freeware   and  public  domain
     programs.  I do not recall the edition or volume number.

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                                  NOTICES
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                          The Interrupt Stack


     23 Nov 1988
        25th Anniversary of "Dr. Who" - and still going strong

     24 Aug 1989
        Voyager 2 passes Neptune.

      5 Oct 1989
        20th Anniversary of "Monty Python's Flying Circus"

     If you have something which you would like to see on this
     calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1.

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     Bob Rudolph

     Effective with this FidoNews issue all IFNA monetary transactions
     will be handled by our Treasure, Steve Bonine (1:1/11). Steve
     will deposit money and verify memberships for all IFNA Orders.
     The actual processing of memberships and filing of PO's will
     continue to be done by other individuals after the treasure's
     duties are completed. The administrative and legal address are
     now both listed as St. Louis. The forms at the back of this
     FidoNews refect this change.

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                          Latest Software Versions

     BBS Systems            Node List              Other
     & Mailers   Version    Utilities   Version    Utilities  Version

     Dutchie       2.90b*   EditNL         4.00    ARC           5.22*
     Fido            12h    MakeNL         2.12    ARCmail        1.1
     Opus          1.03b    Prune          1.40    ConfMail      4.00*
     SEAdog         4.10    XlatList       2.86    EchoMail      1.31
     TBBS           2.0M    XlaxNode       2.10    MGM            1.1
     BinkleyTerm    2.00*   XlaxDiff       2.10    TPB Editor    1.21*
     QuickBBS       2.03*   ParseList      1.20*
     TPBoard         4.2*

     * Recently changed

     Utility authors:  Please help  keep  this  list  up  to  date  by
     reporting  new  versions  to 1:1/1.  It is not our intent to list
     all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity.

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                             COMMITTEE REPORTS
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                          IFNA Treasurer's Report
                              September, 1988
                           Steve Bonine   115/777

     I was elected IFNA treasurer at FidoCon in August and plan to
     provide a short summary of IFNA finances in FidoNews each month.
     By the time I close the books, get the article to Dale, and it
     gets published, expect it around the middle of the month.

     This month's report isn't typical.  The transition is not yet
     complete, so I'm not really able to provide my own report.  The
     IFNA account in Hawaii is still being used, and Leonard Mednick
     has been generous in his help during the transition period.  I
     hope to have things switched in time to provide a more normal
     report next month.

     The monthly data provided in FidoNews will be a summary.  For
     those of you who want more detail, file-request from 115/777
     using the "magic name" of IFNA$.  (I accept either type of file
     request, 23 hours a day.)  This file will be updated monthly and
     contains the summary and detail data for each month.  Detail data
     is provided in both a standard text file and in spreadsheet
     format.  Analyze to your heart's content.

     There was considerable discussion before FidoCon about a
     committee to "oversee" the treasurer.  After FidoCon, I posted a
     message in the IFNA echomail conference soliciting volunteers for
     this task.  Either the message got lost, or none of the folks who
     were so willing to complain are willing to help.  I have not
     received a single offer of help, or even a flame!  If you are
     interested in this aspect of IFNA affairs, please contact either
     myself or Mark Grennan (147/1) who is chair of the Administration
     and Finance Committee.

     And now, thanks to Leonard Mednick, a summary for August.


     RECIEPTS & DEPOSITS
        Membership fees                     850.00
        Sales                               180.00
        Interest earned                      20.11

     TOTAL RECEIPTS                                         $1050.11

     DISBURSEMENTS
        Postage                              43.80
        Phone expense                       301.89
        Box rental                           28.00

     TOTAL DISBURSEMENTS                                      373.69

     EXCESS RECEIPTS OVER DISBURSEMENTS                       676.42
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     ADD BEGINNING BALANCE                                   4109.03

     BALANCE IN ACCOUNT                                      4785.45

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            OFFICERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL FIDONET ASSOCIATION

     Hal DuPrie       101/106  Chairman of the Board
     Bob Rudolph      261/628  President
     Matt Whelan      3:3/1    Vice President
     Ray Gwinn        109/639  Vice President - Technical Coordinator
     David Garrett    103/501  Secretary
     Steve Bonine     115/777  Treasurer



                         IFNA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

         DIVISION                               AT-LARGE

     10  Courtney Harris   102/732?        Don Daniels     107/210
     11  Bill Allbritten   11/301          Hal DuPrie      101/106
     12  Bill Bolton       3:54/61         Mark Grennan    147/1
     13  Rick Siegel       107/27          Steve Bonine    115/777
     14  Ken Kaplan        100/22          Ted Polczyinski 154/5
     15  Larry Kayser      104/739?        Matt Whelan     3:3/1
     16  Vince Perriello   141/491         Robert Rudolph  261/628
     17  Rob Barker        138/34          Steve Jordan    102/2871
     18  Christopher Baker 135/14          Bob Swift       140/24
     19  David Drexler     19/1            Larry Wall      15/18
      2  Henk Wevers       2:500/1         David Melnik    107/233

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     Baud Rates Supported ____________________________________________
     Board Restrictions ______________________________________________

     Your Special Interests __________________________________________
     _________________________________________________________________
     _________________________________________________________________
     In what areas would you be willing to help in FidoNet? __________
     _________________________________________________________________
     _________________________________________________________________
     Send this membership form and a check or money order for $25 in
     US Funds to:
                   International FidoNet Association
                   PO Box 41143
                   St Louis, Missouri 63141
                   USA

     Thank you for your membership!  Your participation will help to
     insure the future of FidoNet.

     Please NOTE that IFNA is a general not-for-profit organization
     and Articles of Association and By-Laws were adopted by the
     membership in January 1987.  The second elected Board of Directors
     was filled in August 1988.  The IFNA Echomail Conference has been
     established on FidoNet to assist the Board.  We welcome your
     input to this Conference.

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                   INTERNATIONAL FIDONET ASSOCIATION
                            ORDER FORM

                           Publications

     The IFNA publications can be obtained by downloading from Fido
     1:1/10 or  other FidoNet compatible  systems, or by purchasing
     them directly from IFNA.  We ask that  all our  IFNA Committee
     Chairmen   provide  us   with  the  latest  versions  of  each
     publication, but we can make no written guarantees.

     Hardcopy prices as of October 1, 1986

     IFNA Fido BBS listing                       $15.00    _____
     IFNA Administrative Policy DOCs             $10.00    _____
     IFNA FidoNet Standards Committee DOCs       $10.00    _____

                                               SUBTOTAL    _____

                    IFNA Member ONLY Special Offers

     System Enhancement Associates SEAdog        $60.00    _____
     SEAdog price as of March 1, 1987
     ONLY 1 copy SEAdog per IFNA Member

     Fido Software's Fido/FidoNet               $100.00    _____
     Fido/FidoNet price as of November 1, 1987
     ONLY 1 copy Fido/FidoNet per IFNA Member

     International orders include $10.00 for
            surface shipping or $20.00 for air shipping    _____

                                               SUBTOTAL    _____

                 MO. Residents add 5.725% Sales Tax         _____

                                               TOTAL       _____

        SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER IN US FUNDS:
        International FidoNet Association
        PO Box 41143
        St Louis, Mo. 63141
        USA

     Name________________________________
     Zone:Net/Node____:____/____
     Company_____________________________
     Address_____________________________
     City____________________  State____________  Zip_____
     Voice Phone_________________________


     Signature___________________________

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