Re: Trademarks, random strings, sharing, reserved words

[Hank Nussbacher <hank@ibm.net.il>]

At 12:59 PM 12/21/96 -0800, Brad Templeton wrote:
>Consider 800 numbers.  Users of these care that they be memorable, not
>that they be guessable.  Only rarely are they guessable.   Instead, we
>have 800-555-1212 in North America to avoid the need to guess them.
>However, when I advertise my own 800 number (800-USE-NETS) I use a number
>with a memorable mnemonic, as do many others.

Using 800 numbers as an example is a bad example.  It would be ok if your
user base is strictly North American.  In many countries there are no
letters on the dial pad and in some the letters do not match up to the
numbers you specifically want.  The Internet is a global resource so you
need to think of something that will map globabally.


Hank Nussbacher
IAHC member
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