Re: Fallacy of hindsight again (was something else)

[Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com>]

At 12:21 PM 01/14/97 -0500, Vince Wolodkin wrote:

>Carl Oppedahl wrote:
>> 
>> The beneficiaries of the waiting period are not only the (estimated by you)
>> 4,000 who would have had trademark challenges, but also the other 796,000
>> who (we can later say in hindsight) did not.  All of them turn out to have
>> had enhanced stability.
>
>Well, as someone who registers domain names, I don't want your precious
>stability.  This is intrusive.  If I wish to do a trademark search and
>take my chances and I have lawyers, I don't think we need you or the
>IAHC telling us they know better than we do.  
>
>Perhaps, since your internet experience is basically limited to those
>who have been shafted by the powers that be, you are a little to quick
>to bandage what to those of us who know better is merely a scratch.

Your characterization of my Internet experience is incorrect and unjustified.