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Re: Gail.com FAQ

#81

> "There are only two valid e-mail addresses on the gail.com domain" [...] > "My husband and I" [...] > "If you have a question not answered above, feel free to send it to: faq at gail period com" I wonder if the emails sent to the faq inbox would bounce haha

Well one of the two email addresses could actually be faq

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#82

From the domain takeover decision: "vii) it is unlikely that the Respondent was unaware of the Complainant’s trademark considering the fame and tradition of the trademark GAIL;" Are lawyers allowed to lie like that? It is obviously not unlikely that the someone has never heard of this obscure "manufacturer and distributor of ceramic products for architectural use" company.

I learned that lawyers are allowed to lie like there's no tomorrow, especially in civil cases pre-trial, in my jurisdiction. This was especially emotionally scarring when I hired a lawyer to rebuke civil claims of several thousand Euros for (supposed) downloading of some TV show episode, a practice which is either considered a national sport, or a major contributor to GNP in Germany (the copyright claims, not the dow…

Fascinating. I live in Switzerland where downloading is legal but uploading is not.

So basically if you downloaded a hypothetical torrent, and set upload bandwidth to zero, you‘re safe.

I guess the lawyer could argue that I’m a bumbling idiot who forgot to turn off the upload facility…?

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#83

> "There are only two valid e-mail addresses on the gail.com domain" [...] > "My husband and I" [...] > "If you have a question not answered above, feel free to send it to: faq at gail period com" I wonder if the emails sent to the faq inbox would bounce haha

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Re: Gail.com FAQ

#85
Sort of related: https://asdf.com/asdfemail.html is still going strong.

"You would never guess how many people use asdf@asdf.com (or some variant form) as a filler email address across the Internet. Opening up @asdf.com lets in hundreds of email messages a day pertaining to porn site registrations, real audio downloading, mailing lists dealing with Windows NT ... the list goes on and on! If you would really like to send us an email, you can do so here."

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#86
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blocked by our company filter as an "adult" resource, so you might have to add a NSFW warning there.

Can't think why they'd add NSFW to that site, it's a plain text site primarily. I guess there may be something NSFW in the FTP archive somewhere, but I think that's probably an overactive filter.

> Can't think why they'd add NSFW to that site

As someone already mentioned nearby in the thread it could easily be something in the “purity test” content that has tripped an automatic naughty word filter.

It could even be the name of the site, depending on the location weapons and such might be considered NSFW (or for overly strict companies, not-relevant-for-work-we-dont-know-why-you-are-wanting-to-look-at-it-in-work-time!).

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#88
post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's nothing actually NSFW at the link, just your filter being overzealous

Perhaps they are confusing it with the San Francisco Armory, a historic building the NIMBY neighbors blocked from being converted into housing so a porn company bought it instead and turned it into a production company instead.

Not anymore I’m afraid. Sold in 2018

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Armory

Re: Gail.com FAQ

#89

See also http://nissan.com/ Background here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Comp...

http://steam.com/ used to be similar, but apparently they sold out later. I guess nothing is permanent.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20161013203919/http://www.steam....

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20220730090724/http://www.steam....

(The site is offline at the moment.)

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