[TriLUG] [Not a joke] AOL is suing me!

[Tomm Lorenzin]

How 'bout "Instantaneous Messenger?"  That oughtta' do the lawyer-repellant
trick while retaining your clarity-of-meaning.  It also kinda' shoves it up
their noses, which they richly deserve. <G>

7;^)
Cheers!
Tomm "big tyke" Lorenzin
Mooresville (Lake Norman), NC

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-admin at trilug.org 
> [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Gregory S. Hopper
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 11:07
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] [Not a joke] AOL is suing me!
> 
> 
> What if you were to just drop the capital letters and use a 
> generic "instant messenger", or change it slightly to 
> "instant messaging"? That would still work on the web page in 
> question.
> 
> Personally, I don't think that "real-time communication 
> service" conveys the same idea as "instant messaging".  Phone 
> calls, talking, gesturing, etc. all come under the umbrella 
> of "real-time communication services", whereas IM'ing (I hope 
> I'm not infringing there) is clearly "real-time communication 
> services between computers or similar devices like cell 
> phones."  Maybe you should use that -- I'll bet no one has 
> trademarked that.  :-)
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
> > Anyway, I do not want to drop perfect descriptive English words to 
> > please insane, inmoral and abusing delusions of ownership by a 
> > corporation.
> > 
> ...
> > They are asking that you
> > instead use the generic term "real-time communication 
> service" which 
> > is to my mind confusing and opaque. I see from your pages 
> that you are 
> > actually referring to Microsoft Messenger so you would be in 
> > compliance and accurate if you simply dropped the "Instant" 
> from the 
> > pages.
> 
> 
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