At 10:44 PM 2/21/99, Keith Olsen wrote:
>V@lkswagen Vanag@n  vs  Volkswagen Vanagon
>I've seen a problem like this before in other areas and people just had to get
>creative in their usage.   It's done all the time.
>BTW: Look at food products that call themselves "lite"  They have no set
>standard that they need to adhere to. "Lite" is not a real word so they can
>assign any meaning they want to it.  And if the public happens to mistake it
>for "light" meaning less in calories or fat or cholesterol...too bad.
>or, I've seen a product called Just Pik't orange juice.  Now, they couldn't
>call it "Just Picked" because it wasn't picked recently enough to justify a
>"Just" .  But "Just Pik't" sounds like "just picked" when you say it  but the
>speaker of the phrase has legal safety net so you've gotten across the concept
>of freshness, without leagally having to substantiate it.  Ain't this country
>great!  D*MN Right it is.
>I'd double check this loophole with an expert before proceeding, because while
>I fancy myself a wiseass and a gadfly, I ain't no lawyer.

        Nor, apparently, a network domain addressing expert...:-)

        V@lkswagen Vanag@n  NOR any other combination using the "@"
        (circumflex) character won't work for a domain name nor mailinglist
        name since the meaning of the "@" is fixed...

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