Implementing SPAM and virus protection for mail server

[Patrick McSwiggen]

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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