Editor's Corner

FidoNet logo inquiry
By Frank Vest
1:1/23
editor@fidonews.org

As editor of the Fidonews, I get messages at the "editor@fidonews.org" address with everything from articles to viruses. The articles, of course, I accept and put in the Fidonews, the viruses, I delete. Then there are those inquiries like the one below that make me stop and go "Duh... Hmmm... I don't know the answer. Let me think on this a minute." :-)

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"Hello there,

This is Marti LaChance with Smart Computing magazine. We're working on an Encyclopedia of Computing, a printed volume due out in the spring of 2002. I'm writing to ask permission to use the dog-with-diskette logo for our FidoNet entry. I'm thinking of the image on fidonet.fidonet.org called "doggy," but will use the FidoNet logo you prefer.

If this is ok with you, do you have a high-resolution copy of your logo?

I have sent a similar inquiry to Tom Jennings, but have heard no response."
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FWIW, here's the basics of my reply:

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"I'm really not sure where to go with your request. Fidonet is a hobby network and there are many "logo"s for Fidonet. I'm attaching the one that is registered as a trademark (Trade2.logo). The most commonly known is the ASCII "Dog with Diskette" that appears in the text version of the Fidonews. As far as which one to use in your "Encyclopedia of Computing", I really don't know which one to tell you to use."
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I still don't know if I helped at all, but I did receive a reply indicating that they were going to use the trademark version.

It is kinda nice to know in this day and age of computing that Fidonet still has a place in history. Just thought I'd pass this along in case anyone is interested. :)

The url for "Smart Computing magazine" is http://www.smartcomputing.com in case anyone is interested in looking their site over.

Regards,

Frank Vest