Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!hoptoad!amdcad!amdahl!cit-vax!oddhack!jon From: jon@oddhack.UUCP Newsgroups: alt.flame Subject: Name Collisions (Was Re: Will the real billw please sit down?) Message-ID: <4760@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> Date: Fri, 4-Dec-87 08:11:59 EST Article-I.D.: cit-vax.4760 Posted: Fri Dec 4 08:11:59 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Dec-87 06:17:55 EST References: <4954@elroy.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> <2298@killer.UUCP> Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu Reply-To: jon@oddhack.Caltech.EDU (Jonathan P. Leech) Distribution: na Organization: Caltech Odd Hack Committee Lines: 21 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Keywords: 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) __@/