Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mgweed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!mgweed!kek From: kek@mgweed.UUCP (Kit Kimes) Newsgroups: net.micro.atari Subject: Re: Programs in Magazines now available in a disk! Message-ID: <7963@mgweed.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 08:32:20 EST Article-I.D.: mgweed.7963 Posted: Wed Mar 21 08:32:20 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 22-Mar-84 01:29:37 EST References: <1865@tekig.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Consumer Products - Montgomery Illinois Lines: 26 NOTE: Buyers (and sellers) beware! A couple of months we got a similar offer from a company calling itself U.S. Computype out of Bountiful, Utah. They wanted to charge $90 a year or $12 a month for essentially the same thing. I sent a check for one month to see if it was for real. You had to sign a statement that you actually owned the issues you were going to get on disk (I assume this was an attempt to get around legal problems since it is legal for someone else to do the typing as long a you own the magazine according to Compute! magazine). Anyway, a couple of weeks later, I got a letter with my check back saying that they were having problems and would let me know as soon as they could take orders. I can only assume one of the magazines brought some kind of suit against them. I haven't heard from them again as yet. Moral: It may be possible to get away with this sort of thing on a local level but if this person tries to go national (and even international over netnews) he could be in for some legal problems. Kit Kimes AT&T Consumer Products Montgomery Works Aurora, Il. 60507 ..!ihnp4!we13!mgweed!kek