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From: yngvi@rhi.hi.is (Yngvi Sigurjonsson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386BSD vs BSDI
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Date: 23 Feb 93 16:13:11 GMT
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In <1mdar0INNn5n@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> chet@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Chet Ramey) writes:

>In article <HALEY.93Feb23030107@husc11.harvard.edu> haley@husc11.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley) writes:

>The 1-800-ITS-UNIX thing?  What about, for instance, the mug in my
>office from another company with the phone number 1-800-SAY-UNIX?
>That company, needless to say, is not being litigated.

Just wondering, does AT&T assign 1-800 numbers? It would be nice to be 
able to give somone a number and then sue them for using it. Or BSDI 
might even be able to sue AT&T for giving them a illegal phonenumber.

>(Anyway, BSDI changed their phone number a long time ago; one hopes
>that it's no longer an issue.)

Did they just change it themselves. Or did some company related to AT&T do
it?


Yngvi