I spoke to Martin Gorfinkle personally about this on Tuesday, and he told me

"yes the message is for real".
LARC is the company that wrote Fantasia.  Proactive was the "distributor".
Terry Simpkins
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From: owner-hp3000-l
To: HP3000-L
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Fwd: Attention Fantasia Customers !!
Date: Wednesday, October 29, 1997 7:00PM

On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Rick Clark wrote:
> David A. Warner wrote:
> > Here is the real email address!
> > [log in to unmask]
> > LARC Computing, the authors of Fantasia, in conjunction with JetForm
> > Corporation, is preparing a mailing that contains important
> > information on
> > the next version of the Fantasia software.  Customers should send
> > their
> > registration information to LARC Computing for verification.
>
>    Can anyone on the list validate this?? Is this true?

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. If someone
sends
them an e-mail, please let the list know the result (if nobody does so, then
I'll do it tomorrow after I get the list's digest).

Cheers...                       Marco Zamora