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From: jon@oddhack.UUCP
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Subject: Name Collisions (Was Re: Will the real billw please sit down?)
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Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 08:11:59 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  4 08:11:59 1987
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In article <2298@killer.UUCP> billw@killer.UUCP (Bill Wisner) writes:
>In article <4954@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> billw@jplpub1 (Bill Weisman) writes:
>>Let's settle this once and for all, Wisner.  I challenge you to a duel:
>>short-haul modems at 20 paces.  Whichever one of us is left alive gets
>>exclusive rights to billw (of course *I* have the advantage - there are
>>backup copies of me!)
>...
>>		    jeff@jplpub1.jpl.nasa.gov

				 ^^^

    Trying to pull another quick one, I see. Do you think you can use
my initials as a domain name with impunity? I clearly have precedence,
since Usenet was not even a glimmer in AT&T's collective eye in 1962.
Our duel will require more substantial weapons; I suggest planetary
probes at 20 AU. Whichever one is left alive gets exclusive marketing
rights to the Voyager photography.

--
    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu || ...mcnc!unc!leech)
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