Re: Strong caveat on user-friendly directory

["tmcghan@gill-simpson.com" <tmcghan@gill-simpson.com>]

David Collier-Brown <davecb@Canada.Sun.COM> contributed:

> a ``friendly'' directory which attempts to do a prefix search on multiple .tm.XX
> and .tm.int domains for, say ``american'', will collect a a cross-section
> of multiple domains, so that american airlines will appear adjacent to american
 trucklines, american standard plumbing...
{snip}
>   Imagine the unhappiness of the president of American Standard
> if he were to try to find his company in a friendly directory
> and was presented with a list of all the other companies who his
> company was easily confused with.

David, 

Is this subtantially different from the existing situation for our 
friend, the president of American Standard, who looks up his company 
in the Yellow Pages, the AT&T Toll-Free Directory, the Chamber of 
Commerce index, etc.?  Companies with similar 'easily confused' name 
will not pop into existence if this directory is created.   Indeed, 
as with all similar directories, it is not more than an organized 
collection of existing information, all of which may be presumed to 
exist already in the public domain.  Kill^H^H^H^Hsue the messenger?




 
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