Re: Trademarks, random strings, sharing, reserved words

[Dave Crocker <dcrocker@imc.org>]

At 12:43 PM -0800 12/23/96, Brad Templeton wrote:
>It is my presumption, however that we seek to not making going to
>a directory obligatory, the way it is for telephone numbers.  Otherwise
>let's just give people telephone numbers.

	This may seem a small point, but I happen to think it is
fundamental:  most of us do not get most of our phone numbers from a
directory.  (Yeah, your mileage may vary, but the key point is that a great
many phone numbers are obtained by a variety of other techniques.)

	I get most phone numbers from people's mouths (...) and from other
people's business cards.  Occasionally I get them from .sig fields or home
pages.

d/


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