From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 19 10:59:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA15439 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 10:59:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA15434 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 10:59:21 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA13162; Mon, 19 Feb 1996 11:55:19 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602191855.LAA13162@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: News group split time? To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 11:55:19 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, phk@critter.tfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20953.824755000@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 19, 96 10:36:40 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Since they also have the infinite amounts > of time and vitriol only available to those who are over 30, have no > jobs and still live with their parents, they win. [ ... ] > In a field of steaming fresh cow manure, the man with no nostrils > is king! :-) I don't live with my parents, and I have a real job. However, I am over 30, and my sense of smell isn't what it used to be. It is very tempting to bring the use of the word "unix" in news group names to the attention of the trademark weenies at USL (who still owns the trademark, they've just exclusively licensed it to X/Open). Since their only contact with the net is via "INTERNET%" email that shows up in the CC:Mail mailboxes, it's not clear that they are aware of its "misuse" (ie: any use by anyone other than their licensees). They would probably be happy to have a handle to beat on uunet because of the Rob Kolstad relationship (notice that BSDI is "using" the "unix trademark" in violation of the consent decree by way of group naming). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.