[LINK] 'Yellow Pages' as a Trademark

[Rick Welykochy]

Stilgherrian wrote:

> A screenshot and my extended rant at:
> 
>     http://stilgherrian.com/marketing/sensis_legal_bullies/

The link to the screenshot of Yellow(R) returns a 404 error*.

> One possible reason for this madness: Sensis want to separate "the Yellow
> Pages Directory" from the Yellow brand, possibly with the aim of offloading
> the presumably-expensive business of printing phone books which no-one uses
> any more.

Like yourself and many, many, many others I have not used either the
Yellow Pages or White Pages (printed() for years now. How does one
stop this waste of paper? Each year, four tomes go into the paper
recycling bin and four new books take up space in an unused corner.

cheers
rickw


<unrelated type=rant>
* on some science show on ABC/RN the other day (or was it on Sleek Geeks
   on ABC/TV?) mention was made of the origin of ERROR 403 PAGE NOT FOUND.
   First off, the error code is 403. Second, the show reported that the
   error code was "named" after Room 403 at CERN. Ridiculous, I
   say. The error codes for HTTP[1] were modeled after those for FTP[2]
   and I strongly doubt any connection to Room 403.

[1] <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html>

[2] <http://www.altools.net/Portals/0/support/alftp/ALFTP_4x/FTP_response_codes_rfc_959_messages.htm>
</unrelated>



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