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Re: Lego at Gerf.Org
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lugnet.publish
Date: 
Mon, 27 Sep 1999 21:42:24 GMT
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mattdm@NOSPAMmattdm.org
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James Brown <galliard@shades-of-night.com> wrote:
> Yes, but people aren't reasonable. :)  And I suspect that if you went out and
> asked 10 random people what company owned "lego.gerf.org", most of them would
> tell you "Lego".

Really? That's pretty sad.


> And I don't know about the rest of you, but if I saw lego.castles.org, or
> lego.blacktron.org, I would sure as heck think it was an official site.


I assume that Blacktron is a trademark of TLG. (It's definitely "their"
word, in any case.) So yeah, assuming that lego.blacktron.org belongs to TLG
makes sense. But (and I mean this in all the best way) if you associate
anything at castles.org with TLG, you're being silly.



> My point is that merely the fact that this conversation is happening means
> that there may be some confusion.

I don't think so. I think it illustrates that there is very little
confusion: not a single person thought "Oh wait, maybe this guy actually has
checked with TLG and gotten sponsorship of his site. It's possible that he's
got some sort of authorized specialness."



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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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(...) That possibility, or that I >think< that? ;-) (...) When I read a URL that conists primarily of words, I instinctively try to read it as a sentence instead of as placeholders for a string of numbers. <shrug> That's the language I grew up with. (...) (27 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)

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(...) Techinically. But I think it's safe to say that TLG was not aiming their fair play document at internet design experts. They were aiming it at laymen. I suspect (but can't prove) that if you ask the average joe in the street what at internet (...) (27 years ago, 27-Sep-99, to lugnet.publish)

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