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Re: Mobil Threatens Legal Action Against UCSB

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From: Ross Brunetti
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:00
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Allan wrote:
> 
> hnn@charm.physics.ucsb.edu (Harry Nelson) wrote:
> 
> :>  Greetings,
> :>  Today, Mobil Corporation threatened UCSB with a lawsuit
> :>over the images at URL:
> :>
> :>  http://charm.physics.ucsb.edu/hotline/
> :>
> :>  I established that Web Page in May, 1996, at the request
> :>of Steve Greig of the Mobil Coporation, in order to help Mobil
> :>advertise a hotline they maintain for smell problems in the
> :>West Ellwood area of Santa Barbara County.
> :>
> :>  Although Mobil made the request for the Web page, they
> :>threatened a lawsuit against UCSB for use of corporate logos
> :>and images linked to the page.
> :>
> :>  The page has now been modified.
> :>
> :>   Harry Nelson
> :>
> Is there a point to this msg, or is it spin control? :-)
> Allan

For whom? Mobil, or UCSB?

Certainly, there's no love lost between the two.

Ross
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From: Ross Brunetti <rossb@thegrid.net>
Subject: Re: Mobil Threatens Legal Action Against UCSB
Date: 1996/06/20
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