Implementing SPAM and virus protection for mail server

James Marcinek jmarc1 at jemconsult.biz
Tue Sep 21 00:49:24 UTC 2004


It's great that everyone wants to discuss this legal question; however what
about my original email question that started this thread? Thanks for changing
the subject of my technical issue (to the man who started the whole SPAM vs spam
issue)

For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com> wrote: 
> On Sep 20, 2004, at 11:30 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > OT as is this, but IMO, the knickers in a knot that hormel seems to
> > have gotten themselves into, does rather sound like something they
> > really should get over.  They'll never be able to control the real
> > world useage of so common a word, one thats been part of the US
> > english vocabulary for something over 60 years IIRC.
> 
> Well, this is really off-topic, but the law is that if a company 
> doesn't seek to protect their trademark, then they lose it all 
> together. So Hormel might or might not care one wit about the use of 
> spam to describe unsolicited bulk email, but if they didn't make an 
> *attempt* to protect their trademark (as they are doing--possibly 
> knowing full well that it's hopeless), they would lose the trademark in 
> the food area and other companies could come in and market their own 
> SPAM. (God help us!)
> 
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