RBBS-PC OF CHICAGO Serving the PC Community since 1983! Loren D. Jones, Sysop P.O. Box 127 LaGrange, IL 60606 (312) 352-1035 (data) . September 8, 1988: Thom L. Henderson System Enhancement Associates, Inc. 21 New Street Wayne, New Jersey 07470 . Dear Mr. Henderson: . I am the sysop of RBBS-PC of Chicago. My board, which was started in August of 1983, has approximately 5,600 registered users from every state in the union and fifteen foreign countries. We are presently adding between five and seven new users every day, seven days per week. The board has fielded over 120,000 calls to date, and currently handles in excess of 1,200 calls per week on its five incoming lines. . I am also a lawyer. And as a lawyer and a sysop I find your recent actions against PKware despicable. A classic case of "if you can't out program 'em, sue 'em" mentality. I watched as ARC (a term clearly a carry-over from CP/M days...contrary to your delusions of originality) came on the scene. I also watched as it languished after its introduction with no significant improvements in either features or speed. You can be grateful that PKARC came along, for without its speed ARC never would have survived. . What you and your lawyers apparently overlooked in your zealous greed was the fact that it was BBS sysops such as myself that made ARC a standard. By your recent actions to destroy one of the few standards that now exist in the BBS world, you have clearly bitten the hand that feeds you. . Either reconsider your "settlement" with PKware, or I, like sysops of hundreds of other major boards, will do all we can to assure ARC's early demise. I will clear my system of anything bearing your name and will recommend my users NOT support anything remotely related to yourself or your company. Finally, it is my intention to convert my entire system to whatever new library format PKware chooses to implement in the future. The choice is yours. . Sincerely, . Loren D. Jones