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From: rastaman@ihdev.UUCP (Gus Anthozoan)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re**2: International Star Registry - A Clever Scam?
Message-ID: <418@ihdev.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Nov-85 09:41:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 29 09:41:01 1985
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In article <4632@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>> "International Star Registry" does not sound like the name of a
>> legitimate astronomical society. Has anyone out there ever heard of it?
>> Or is it, as I suspect, a clever scam?
>
>I think your suspicions are well-founded.

	Official designations are determined by the International
	Astronomical Union.  Period.  "ISR" can of course copyright
	their "catalog" but that just means nobody else can 
	duplicate *the catalog* without permission. (I'd be happy
	to name any kind of lunar feature after you for a mere
	$10.)
	
	
		ihnp4!ihdev!rastaman
	
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