On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: > At 2003-07-03 09:07:21 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > . $spam should not be used; SPAM is a trademark of Hormel Corp. (a > > fine company) for their highly-addictive lunch meat (which goes > > quite when when consumed with Dom Perignon) > Hormel does not object to the use of "spam" as long as it's not all in > upper case. <http://www.spam.com/ci/ci_in.htm>
That's true; however some companies have been crossing over the line by their use of "spam" in product names, and Hormel *has* been objecting to that. Since I don't think we should get into the business of registering $spam and explicitly un-registering and forbidding $SPAM, it would be better to avoid the name entirely. -- Mark -- http://staff.washington.edu/mrc Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
