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From: ijs@eplunix.UUCP (Ishmael)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: INTERNET vs Internet
Keywords: INTERNET MCI
Message-ID: <940@eplunix.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 90 20:30:21 GMT
Organization: Eaton-Peabody Lab, Boston, MA
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Does INTERNET != Internet?

In today's mail I received a flyer from Gerber Electronics describing
all the various ways to contact them, and in addition to the usual
phone, FAX, cable, MCI, EZlink, GEISCO addresses, they had the following
paragraph:

	Our MCI Mail number is xxx-xxxx.  This is particularly useful
	for customers connected to INTERNET.  They can send messages
	to us via MCI MAIL by addressing them:
	  TO:	Gerber Electronics/MCI IC: 403-8582
	  EMS:  INTERNET/MCI IC: 403-8582
	and of course we can reply to them via MCI MAIL if they
	furnish their INTERNET address.	

The above bears no relation to any Internet address I have seen before.
Do we have another trademark fight in the offing?  How many Internets
can we have before overloading the language?

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