Re: Trademarks, random strings, sharing, reserved words

[Jeff Williams <jwkckid1@ix.netcom.com>]

Dave,

  I think you bring up a good point here.  In addition I would like to
add
that I think the privacy chould be paramount.  I believe you have
commented
on this befor.  

Regards,


Dave Crocker wrote:
> 
> 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/
> 
> (read the last line, please)
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