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>Anybody else get one of these? I figure it's one of the two: >-Greg How about we get this on every VW List, Message Board, and any other avenue we can think of: have every last VW Enthusiast with a site honoring a car they love email this Stephen J. Arpaia, Esq. and express that under OUR stipulations we'd love to work with them. If done tactfully and properly maybe it could make some kind of difference? I've already got a disclaimer on my sites stating that these symbols are the trademark of the parent company. But I would really love to see some logical explanation why VWoA thinks they can claim trademark on the words "Bug", "Bus" & "Buggy". These WORDS were around LONG before the Dr. Porsche entered the picture and furthermore apply to a lot more than just Volkswagens! It's very easy to get totally frustrated over this issue, (not to mention down-right panicked) but as I stated to someone who wrote to me just the other day, what can we do aside from ride this out? We are hobbyists that it seems the parent of our hobby wishes would go away, we cannot boycott buying our parts from VWoA because they don't or won't sell them; We can't refuse to get our cars serviced by them because they can't or won't service anything with an engine without water pumping through it's veins. And lastly, most of us are irritated enough not to buy a new VW from them but again, they appear to consider us a dying minority and they would rather focus sales on the masses of folks that have no idea that this company used to have engines in the BACK of their cars, not to mention I'm sure it's disturbing to VWoA that we would keep a car (heaven forbid) for longer than 5 years. The best we can hope to do is peacefully and IN MASS begin to contact VWoA ourselves before they decide our fate for us. Travis '66 VOLKSWAGEN Fastback www.t3.vwherb.com www.vwtrav.vwherb.com www.vwherb.com ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe