At 10:44 PM 2/21/99, Keith Olsen wrote: >V@lkswagen Vanag@n vs Volkswagen Vanagon >I've seen a problem like this before in other areas and people just had to get >creative in their usage. It's done all the time. >BTW: Look at food products that call themselves "lite" They have no set >standard that they need to adhere to. "Lite" is not a real word so they can >assign any meaning they want to it. And if the public happens to mistake it >for "light" meaning less in calories or fat or cholesterol...too bad. >or, I've seen a product called Just Pik't orange juice. Now, they couldn't >call it "Just Picked" because it wasn't picked recently enough to justify a >"Just" . But "Just Pik't" sounds like "just picked" when you say it but the >speaker of the phrase has legal safety net so you've gotten across the concept >of freshness, without leagally having to substantiate it. Ain't this country >great! D*MN Right it is. >I'd double check this loophole with an expert before proceeding, because while >I fancy myself a wiseass and a gadfly, I ain't no lawyer. Nor, apparently, a network domain addressing expert...:-) V@lkswagen Vanag@n NOR any other combination using the "@" (circumflex) character won't work for a domain name nor mailinglist name since the meaning of the "@" is fixed...
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