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Re: More news coverage

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rogaski)
Wed Oct 8 21:50:25 2003

Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 21:49:54 -0400
From: Mark Rogaski <wendigo@pobox.com>
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An entity claiming to be Vivien M. (vivienm@dyndns.org) wrote:
:=20
: But for most endusers who are using IE, they already get the MS search pa=
ge?
: And who is actually going to manually go to sitefinder and type in their
: typoed URLs, especially when they're already used to Google or similar?=
=20
:=20
: The service's "value", if any (and that's a very big if), depends on it
: being automatic...
:=20

If your company wants to advertise during the SuperBowl, but your
competitor has bought up all the available advertising slots, is the
correct response to set up your own transmitter to jam the signal?  Even if
MS has an unfair competitive advantage, what VeriSign did is not an
appropriate or technically feasible response.

Mark

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