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To: SC who wrote (29543)	7/20/1998 8:56:00 AM
From: Tweaker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

I guess we won't see you on Madison Ave. soon!<G> Phil

To: SC who wrote (29543)	7/20/1998 9:12:00 AM
From: isdsms	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

Its a no brainer. Compaq's new name: .COM.COM Regards, Ira.com

To: SC who wrote (29543)	7/21/1998 4:30:00 PM
From: Lynn	Respond to of 97611

Shawn, You indirectly made a very important point if Compaq (or any corporation) changes its name: Can the name be easily translated in other, in particular non-Endo-European languages? Going with this, does the new name, in English or its translation, have a meaning that is tasteless or down-right vulgar? Your made me remember how hard I had to remember _not_ to give my address to people the way we usually do when I worked in an Arabic speaking country for a spell. I had to say, "Postal code [or its Arabic equivalent]," instead of, "Zip code," because the word 'zip' is an extremely vulgar word in the colloquial (what people speak) Arabic where I lived. Lynn