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Re: Where does the Republican Party stand on the 1st Amendment?


From: "William Lefkovics" <william () emailonastick com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:41:59 -0700

Different people read things differently. Some clients can be configured to
default to top or bottom. It is an old argument.  Older than Windows vs
Linux and HTML vs Plain Text.

I often do not read replies that I have to look for, so no apology needed
for top posting here.


-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Richard M. Smith
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 10:59 AM
To: 'funsec'
Subject: Re: [funsec] Where does the Republican Party stand on the 1st
Amendment?

What's wrong with top posting?  The most important stuff comes first and
there is nothing to scroll through to get to it.  Newspaper articles use the
same technique.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Thompson [mailto:my.security.lists () gmail com]
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 5:35 PM
To: Richard M. Smith
Cc: funsec
Subject: Re: [funsec] Where does the Republican Party stand on the 1st
Amendment?

Sorry for top posting, but to answer the question:

"Where does the Republican Party stand on the 1st Amendment?"

Right on top of it, with dog - crap covered shoes...

Not that the Demo's are any better...

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Richard M. Smith
<rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/gop-threatening.html

GOP Threatens CafePress Over Shirts, Stickers and Logos

The Republican National Committee is threatening to sue CafePress for 
hosting an online venue for vendors to hawk GOP-related regalia like 
T-shirts, stickers and portrayals of elephants.

The committee, as it turns out, owns the trademarks to "GOP," "Grand 
Old Party," "Republican National Committee," "RNC" and the official 
GOP elephant logo.

Sean Cairncross, the party's chief counsel, wrote (.pdf) the Foster 
City, California online vendor that the GOP "takes infringements upon 
its trademarks seriously."

"Please cease and desist from allowing vendors to utilize the 
federally registered trademarks of the RNC or we will be forced to 
consider a legal remedy," Cairncross wrote CafePress.

...


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--
Rob


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