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As always, the Kfest committee was working hard, to make this year's event 
the best ever. 

Kfest '99 provided the perfect opportunity for attendees to make new
friends, renew acquaintances, see the faces of online neighbors
they've chatted with through the years, allowing them to meet some of
the programmers, developers, writers and publishers who help keep
their computer platform viable in today's world, hear skilled
lectures on computer issues and also witness demonstrations of new
and old hardware and software. Most of all, they had great fun. 

Prepairing for the next Kfest - 2000 gathering...you may wonder, does
this mean Kfest has everything an Apple II user would want?  Well,
no. There are some things Kfest '99 won't provide. We can almost
guarantee you won't get much sleep. We can also guarantee that you
won't mind a bit. In fact, you won't want to sleep much for fear
you'll miss something!

Last year's Kfest - 98, was one of the best ever. It was highlighted
by a steady stream of new product releases, announcements and great
demonstrations. Among the software titles released were GSoft BASIC,
WebWorks GS, Disk Access II and the TABBS CD-ROM. Among new titles
announced were NiftySpell, Marinetti 2.0, Spectrum 2.2 and Spectrum
Internet Suite 1.1.

It's still too early to know what Kfest '99 actually offered with
produces. Things are still covered in a foggy veil of 'we need sleep
- we'll tell all later'. But, you can certainly be assured it was once
again a VERY special event indeed.

Now is the time to make plans for K2K (Kfest - 2000). As always,
staying in the Avila dorms is the recommended method of attendance.
Much of the special magic occurs after hours, and being on hand for
informal, spontaneous events will make your Kfest experience even
more enjoyable.

Avila College will be providing up to 80 rooms for Kfest -2000 attendees. 
So there should be plenty of room for everybody on campus. 

If you would prefer to stay off-campus, there are a number of hotels and 
motels close by. Off-campus registrations are also available. 

Ready to sign up? We hope so! You won't regret it. 

Stay tuned for registration information. It will be posted as it becomes 
available. And that will be very soon!! 

Meanwhile ... 

JOIN THE K2K - KFEST 2000 - MAILING LIST!! 

To subscribe to the Kfest Information Mailing List, send email to 
majordomo@kfest.org. In the BODY of the message, place the following 
text: 

                subscribe kfest 

You will receive a confirmation email. In order to be signed up for the 
list, you will have to respond to this confirmation as the instructions 
dictate. You will then be able to send and read messages on the mailing 
list. 

If you have other questions about KFest, or wish to make suggestions, 
you can find answers via the Internet. Just send an email message to 
kfest@intrec.com or kfest-help@kfest.org, or visit the World Wide Web 
page at...

 http://www.kfest.org 

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     The above is called a _"commercial"_. Only a panel of complete ditzes objects
to having its commercial spread across the net.

     Removing the commercial leaves 32k of quoted "works". This, by the way, still
includes stuff like a listing of pic files ...


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http://www.primenet.com/~adams/kfest99/1.jpg
http://www.primenet.com/~adams/kfest99/2.jpg
http://www.primenet.com/~adams/kfest99/3.jpg
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http://www.primenet.com/~adams/kfest99/22.jpg
http://www.primenet.com/~adams/kfest99/23.jpg
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To which you can add a long Taxi list showing KF arrivals.


     Even including the above in "quoted stuff", you have 15k of original material
in the report from Dr. Tom for roughly one word of commentary for every two words of
quotes. That is far beyond "a few comments".



> He should read his Delphi
> membership agreement because technically he has violated it. Here's a
> snippet:
> 
> "Delphi Internet Services Corp. retains copyright on the compilation of
> all pages in the 'delphi.com' domain. Individual authors retain full
> rights to their individual works, whether stated or not."

     So, in the competitive world of the internet-- the place where webmasters are
paid to show a mini banner-- you expect Delphi to be outraged by a free plug for its
services spread across USENET?


 
> Reposting entire message threads goes far beyond "fair use" for third
> party compilations. The very least he should have done was ask for the
> permission of all the people whose work he ripped off and called his
> own.
 ....

     You appear to be intent upon deception. The reason it was so easy to separate
out his material is that Dr. Tom's commentary is clearly delineated. Nowhere does he
claim anyone's material as his own or try to lead anyone to believe someone else's
statements are his.

     As for ripping off "works", to what do you refer? Since when is chit chat and
rag chewing a "work"? Do you plan to sue this guy or are you all shooting for a free
stretch in the looney bin?



Rubywand