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   From: jkxvii@ask.me   
      
   On 07/01/2011 9:07 PM, KalElFan wrote:   
   > "John Kirkpatrick XVII" did once again emerge from his slumber   
   > to write in message news:ig67n1$1ti$1@speranza.aioe.org...   
   >   
   >> It's well established that you can register microsoft-sucks.com   
   >> and the like without infringing Microsoft's trademarks.   
   >   
   > The analogy [insult deleted]   
      
   What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do   
   with television, KalElFan?   
      
   > because a top level Usenet hierarchy   
   > named microsoft-sucks.* and the like is not at issue. Microsoft.*   
   > would be the equivalent to microsoft.com, and you can't register   
   > the latter obviously because it's taken.   
      
   Group names are fully separate though; microsoft.x is completely   
   separate from microsoft.y, unlike x.microsoft.com and y.microsoft.com.   
      
   >> With usenet group names there isn't any "use in commerce"...   
   >   
   > Sez who?   
      
   Sez the fact that the group isn't being sold.   
      
   --   
   Curiosity killed the cat.   
   Satisfaction brought him back.   
      
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