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- deltaComm Development, Inc., PO Box 1185, Cary, NC 27512 USA
- (919)-460-4556 voice, (919)-460-4531 FAX, (919)-481-9399 BBS
- Telix Copyright (C) 1986-1994 by deltaComm Development, Inc.
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- Recently there has been somewhat of a controversy surrounding the status of
- copies of Telix purchased from various companies in the United Kingdom, and
- how to order Telix from other sites in Europe.
-
- This document shall be the final authority regarding the registration of
- copies from the European continent, notably in the United Kingdom.
-
- Exis, Inc. [hereinafter "Exis"], original developer of Telix from 1982
- through late 1992, had contracted with ELSA GmbH of Aachen, Germany
- [hereinafter "ELSA"], as the exclusive registration site for Europe.
-
- ELSA and Exis then sold copies to a third registration site, Intershop, and
- later to another company in Glasgow, Speedmodem, Ltd., both with a contact
- person of George Collins [hereinafter "Intershop, et al"]. This arrangement
- was for the convenience of users in the United Kingdom, enabling them to pay
- in Sterling to a local site. Intershop, et al, was only to contact ELSA, a
- policy which was broken from time in order to expedite their demands.
-
- Exis sold all rights to Telix to deltaComm Development, Inc. [hereinafter
- "deltaComm"], on September 25, 1992. deltaComm and ELSA at that time renewed
- the agreement for ELSA to be the exclusive distributor for Telix in Europe
- (and recently renewed that agreement again in Germany, in January 1994).
-
- The relationship between ELSA and Intershop, et al., soured slightly before
- the change in copyright ownership for reasons which will not be discussed. At
- that time, ELSA and deltaComm agreed that it would be in the best interests
- of all involved to change registration sites in the United Kingdom. To that
- end, ELSA has appointed as the new registration site for Telix:
-
- S.C.S. Ltd.
- Hall Road, Martham
- Great Yarmouth
- Norfolk, ENGLAND
- NR29 4PD
-
- It has also come to our attention that companies that George Collins either
- controls or is associated with have continued to sell copies of Telix in
- Great Britain without first purchasing them from ELSA or deltaComm. Such
- copies may have had handwritten serial numbers on the disk labels that do not
- match the serial number formats of a Telix serial number. Some have been
- labeled "provisional serial number" diskettes.
-
- We regret to say that users who have purchased Telix in Great Britain who do
- not have a serial number that 1) matches the serial number format of Telix,
- and 2) cannot be accounted for as one of the several hundred that *were* sold
- to Intershop, et al., may not in fact be registered Telix users. ELSA no
- longer sells copies of Telix, directly or indirectly, to Intershop, et al.,
- and has not since August, 1993.
-
- The directors of Intershop, et al., have also refused requests to turn over
- the complete database of the names and addresses of those who purchased Telix
- from those companies. This will regrettably make it extremely difficult for
- customers of Intershop, et al., to upgrade their copies via the new
- distributor, S.C.S., Ltd. We would like to try to reconstruct this database
- as accurately as possible in order to make these upgrades possible, since
- Intershop, et al., will not have access to official upgrades of Telix. We are
- therefore sponsoring a disk swap to insure that all Intershop/Speedmodem
- copies of Telix are removed from the market.
-
- All users who purchased their copy or copies of Telix from Speedmodem or
- Intershop should forward their name, address, original diskette and original
- receipt dated prior to November 1st to deltaComm at the address at the top of
- this document. We will replace each and every such copy with a legitimate
- copy, one with a valid serial number. We at deltaComm will insure that S.C.S.
- Ltd. is given each and every name and address we receive with a valid receipt
- and disk, and that S.C.S. passes on to us the names and addresses of all new
- registrees through them. The date mentioned is a date 30 days after the date
- which we estimate, based on ordering patterns, that Intershop, et al., would
- have certainly exhausted their supply of legitimate serial numbers purchased
- from ELSA. Any copies purchased after that date, we regret we cannot replace.
-
- All new copies of Telix in Great Britain should be purchased henceforth from
- S.C.S., Ltd., at the address listed above. S.C.S., Ltd. may from time to time
- sell to other dealers as they see fit. Any questions about the validity of a
- dealer selling copies of Telix in the UK should be directed to S.C.S., Ltd.,
- at the above address. A convenient order form has been enclosed in the latest
- release of Telix to make this easier. It is called UK.REG.
-
- Please distribute this document as widely as possible within the United
- Kingdom, so that we can insure that all copies sold henceforth will be sold
- only through S.C.S., Ltd., the authorized registration site in the UK, or
- through dealers to whom S.C.S., Ltd., may sell.
-
- The current manner in which a European outside of the United Kingdom should
- register Telix is to do so via ELSA's appointed agents. Currently, only a
- site in Germany has been appointed in addition to S.C.S., Ltd., in the UK.
- Order forms for Europeans and their sites will be included with the latest
- copy of Telix. Version 3.22 includes EUROPE.REG and DEUTSCH.REG in addition
- to UK.REG mentioned above.
-
- Anything we can do to make your Telix experience more enjoyable we will
- do. Toward that purpose, ELSA will continue to seek local registration
- sites for other European countries for inclusion in later versions of Telix.
- Countries currently sought are The Netherlands, France, Spain, Finland,
- Sweden and Switzerland. Other countries may also be available. To inquire
- about the possibility of your company becoming an exclusive registration
- site for your country in Europe, send a company profile and cover letter to:
-
- ELSA GmbH
- Attn: Thomas Mertens
- Director of International Sales
- Sonnenweg 11
- D-52070 Aachen
- GERMANY
-
- Sincerely,
-
-
- Zack Jones
- Director of Marketing
- deltaComm Development, Inc.
-