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Source: Int'l Alliance for Compatible Tech. (dgwhiz@earthling.net)
Moderator: Christopher B. Wright (wrightc@dtcweb.com)
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IACT Discovery Project -- Invitation to Sign-on
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DATE: 29th Dec 1998
  TO: Users of all major platforms and the Internet

You probably are familiar with the names of AltaVista, Digital 
Equipment Corporation and Compaq. Following Compaq's buy-out 
of Digital and its assets, Compaq now is the world's #1 computer 
vendor and owns the AltaVista search engine on the World Wide Web.

In 1998, AltaVista/Compaq launched the Internet-based 'Discovery' 
service, now being promoted as a "public" and "free" service 
to the entire Internet community. However, many Internet users are 
being denied access to the AltaVista Discovery service, because 
it does *not* use platform-independent formats that would be 
compatible with any browser and any Operating System of our choice.

Discovery works only with Win95/98 and NT. System requirements 
list only the MSIE and Netscape browsers. No other OSs or browsers, 
normally compatible with the WWW, are deemed acceptable by Alta 
Vista/Compaq.

All of us who have chosen Linux, OS/2, MacOS, BeOS, Rhapsody, 
NeXT, DOS, QNX, BSD, Solaris etc.-- instead of Microsoft Windows-- 
will find out firsthand that Discovery is not a truly open and free 
Internet tool! Unfortunately, it is a closed, proprietary on-line 
service requiring the public to use one single brand of software.

In response, IACT is collecting signatures from Internet users 
across the world, to add to our new Action Letter! To join this 
worthwhile effort, please take a moment to read Action Letter #3, 
in the "Connections" section of our website at

   http://pages.cthome.net/iact/iact-tell.html


Then "sign on" to the Action Letter with us! [Follow the Steps 
given below to sign-on.] The deadline is Monday, January 25th 
1999, but why wait until the last minute to send in your e-mail 
signature? The Internet won't wait. AltaVista, Compaq and other 
companies won't wait. Already, some ISPs are signing contracts 
to deliver Discovery to their own customers, while Microsoft 
continues to use its monopoly of the desktop PC market to push 
that same proprietary software onto the Internet.

After all the e-mail signatures are collected, your name will be 
added onto the final posting of the Letter [late January]. Whether 
you sign as a private citizen, as a business owner, or as the rep. 
of a group, your signature will be much welcomed and appreciated.

If you'd like friends/associates to see the Action Letter, then 
e-mail/fax a copy of this Sign-On Invitation to them! At IACT's 
web page, you may download your copy of a second, separate "FYI" 
type of message better suited for sending to your gov. officials, 
ISP and Internet-related companies with which you do business. 
Please forward each message to reach both types of recipients.


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How to sign the Action Letter
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STEPS 1-2-3

Timing is important, of course, so I'm also going to ask
you to try to move quickly on this. If you'd like to sign
on to the Letter, please follow these simple 1-2-3 steps:

  {1} Reply to me at this address (dgwhiz@earthling.net).
      Use a Subject of "Sign Action Letter #3" for your
      message. 

  {2} In the body of the message, clearly type... 

the necessary info
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  First name:
  Middle name or initial:
  Last name:
  City, State/Province, and Nation:
  E-mail Address:
  {* Your e-mail address will _not_ be given to the
  recipients of the Action Letter nor to third parties!}

the optional info
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  your business/professional name, if any,
  that you wish to include:
  (e.g., Programming Director, Lovable Software Co.)

  -OR- your affiliation with a related organization:


  {3} Send your sign-on message to me before end of Monday,
      January 25th, 1999!


That's all! Please do not copy and send me any part of this same note--
just send me your short e-mail message according to Steps 1-3 above.

   Thanks again!

   Diane Gartner,
   IACT Co-ordinator
   dgwhiz@earthling.net


   The International Alliance for Compatible Technology
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              http://pages.cthome.net/iact/
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