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From: Mike Loader <[e-mail]>
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Subject: SoftLogik BBS and Web Site!
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 00:01:56 -0500
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FAREWELL TO THE OLD SOFTLOGIK BBS

As regular visitors to the SoftLogik BBS, the BBS will be turned off
today, April 12. We are replacing our BBS with a web page and
mailing list so that we can better serve more of our customers.

Our BBS was a great resource for local callers, but was expensive
for foreign customers, especially those downloading the large
PageStream3 patches. Unfortunately, the phone service in our area is
low quality and some customers experienced difficulty connecting to
the BBS. At the same time, we knew that our Internet customers were
having problems getting our patches from Aminet.

The number of customers asking us for a web page has grown from a
trickle to a torrent in the last six months. We knew that our
non-BBS customers would welcome a web page, so we did a survey of
our BBS users. An overwhelming percentage of its users voted in
favor of a web page and mailing list instead of the BBS.

In a perfect world (one in which we were rich and the Amiga had more
market share ;-), we'd operate both a BBS and a web page, but
operating a business BBS is a lot more expensive than a personal BBS
and we couldn't afford both. Thus, the BBS is being turned off.

WELCOME TO THE NEW SOFTLOGIK WEB PAGE

Our web page will be active as soon as the domain name registration
process is complete. The site will be www.softlogik.com. Trying to
access it now will result in an error because the name doesn't exist
yet. It should be registered within a week I've been told. (But
that's what they told me last week too, so no guarantees.

What will you find at www.softlogik.com? Easy one click downloads of
all the latest SoftLogik patches, information on all of our
products, ordering instructions, prices, contact numbers, email
addresses, technical support information, and some freebies.

I will post a message here when the web site goes live.

A MAILING LIST TOO

Web pages are great, but adding a forum message system to one is not
an easy option yet thus we settled on a mailing list. Once the web
page is open for business, we'll post info on how to subscribe to
the SoftLogik Technical Support mailing list. This option will be
especially useful to those who lack web access.

EMAIL ADDRESS CHANGE

With the closing of the BBS, the old "[e-mail]" address is
being discontinued. The slpc.com domain name is being changed to our
new softlogik.com domain so all @slpc.com addresses are now
inactive. The new technical support address will be
"[e-mail]", but it won't be active until the web page
is active. Of course, you can reach us anytime at [e-mail]
and in our technical support sections on CompuServe and Genie. (An
AOL section is in construction now.)

LOOK MA, NO MORE HYPHEN!

This is just cosmetic, but we have dropped the hyphen from our name.
"Soft-Logik" is now just plain old "SoftLogik". (For the trivia
buffs out there, we had to have the hyphen and "k" for legal reasons
to avoid conflicting with another firm. But they're no longer in
business, so we're ditching the hyphen. The "k" is staying because
we've grown to like it.)

This might be of no consequence to you, but if you had to say "with
a dash between... yes, with a hyphen..." on the phone 217 times each
day, then you'd think it was big news too. ;-)

TESTERS NEEDED

I know it's short notice, but we've thrown this web site together in
mere days. We need half a dozen people to try out our web page and
let us know if it looks okay in their browser. We'd rather find out
about a problem before the server locks up when everybody tries to
access it at once. ;-)

If you're interested, email me at [e-mail]. I'll send the
first half dozen people instructions on how to access the web page
now. If you don't have time to test this right away, please don't
ask for instructions because it will be live in a day or two anyway.

OTHER SOFTLOGIK NEWS

PageStream 3.0i Amiga was released on March 7th and has been well
received. If you use 3.0i and have a PostScript printer, don't
forget to download the PGS3ITU1.LHA printing fix. If you have 3.0i
and use BME, you should download the PGS3ITU2.LHA update to BME.

We're hard at work on version 3.1 now but we don't have an estimated
date for it yet. Many people have asked if we would make betas of it
available as we did for 3.0i so that they could get access to new
features sooner. The answer is yes. We were very pleased with the
excellent feedback that we received from the 3.0i public beta
program---it helped make 3.0i a smoother release---so we will
continue the program for version 3.1.

We're taking care of last minute details now for PageStream3 for
Macintosh. As soon as it's ready, it will be released. If you have
a Macintosh, check our web page for the latest Mac news.

TypeSmith 2.5 is back in stock after a two month absence. We printed
an updated manual and TypeSmith is now available for only $49
instead of the former $110 price.

With the sale of Amiga Technologies to VIScorp, we have already
started receiving emails from our customers asking us about our
commitment to the Amiga. We envision no changes, even if the Amiga
is sold to somebody related to Mehdi Ali and friends. ;-) We are
pleased with the reception and sales of PageStream 3.0i. As well,
Digita's Wordworth 5.0, which we sell in North America, has been
very popular with our customers. PageStream 3.1 will certainly not
be the last version for the Amiga.

Regards,

Michael
SoftLogik Publishing