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Bruce Toback <[log in to unmask]>
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Bruce Toback <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 29 Oct 1997 15:19:52 -0700
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Marco Zamora writes:
>I'm pretty suspicious of this e-mail. Proactive Systems, from whom *we*
>bought
>Fantasia (not "LARC Computing"), was pretty serious about documenting their
>customer accounts. JetForm *bought* Proactive Systems and I doubt they *need*
>their customers to "verify" their customer information.
>
>To me, it sounds like a scam to get a mailing list of Fantasia customers for
>some competing company.
>
>Further info:
>        IGC.ORG is registered to the "Institute for Global Communications."
>It's web page (www.igc.org) shows that the IGC is a pro-peace/human rights/
>/ecology/labor/women's movement.
>
>Hardly a place for a commercial query from "LARC" or JetForm, which has
>its own
>domain name (jetform.com).
>
>I was going to send an e-mail to igc.org to see whether this "gorfinkel"
>account is on the level, but I have to leave for the day now. ...

Martin Gorfinkel is the original author of Fantasia, and IS pretty much
LARC. Proactive and others distributed the product, but Martin wrote it.
He also wrote TDP, which is (was) HP's markup-style document processor.

It's not clear that someone involved in a commercial enterprise can't
also be pro-peace, pro-human rights, pro-ecology, pro-labor, and/or
female or pro-female. Heck, I'm involved in a commercial enterprise, and
I'm all those things except one. (I avoid labor whenever possible.)

-- Bruce

PS. Note to pedantic parsers: "or" has a higher precedence than "and/or".



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