(COOLLIST) 'Trademark' Abuse in Texas

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• Subject: (COOLLIST) 'Trademark' Abuse in Texas
• From: combee@sso-austin.sps.mot.com (Ben Combee)
• Date: Wed, 17 Jul 96 11:27:02 CDT
• From coollist-owner Wed Jul 17 09: 27:37 1996
• Reply-To: combee@techwood.org
• Sender: owner-coollist@yak.net

I've got quite an essay about the web, net technology, and serindipity
floating in my head, ready to be written later today.  In the mean
time, here is an article about a company that is quite clever if also
a bit malevolent.  From other articles I've seen, their rates are
about twice the standard AT&T rates.

(BTW, this might answer Natalie Ramsey's old question she paged to me
when I was testing page-ben@yak.net: "who is John Galt?"  :)

--Ben

>Date: Tue, 16 Jul 96 09:31:51 PDT
>From: John_David_Galt@cup.portal.com
>Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
>Subject: 'Trademark' Abuse in Texas

This was on the radio this morning: A small Texas telco, KT&T, has
gotten trademarks on phrases such as "I don't know" and "I don't
care."  If the operator asks you which long distance carrier to use
and you answer with one of these phrases, you will be connected
through KT&T and charged high AOS rates.

How long do you think it'll be before we get a fraud conviction
against these people?

John David Galt

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