[WEB4LIB] Re: The word "listserv" copyrighted?

[Nancy Sosna Bohm]

From: "Andro Gagné" <apgagne at frontiernet.net>
>...Why not call it
> an "e-mail discussion list" or use "Listserv®" with proper attribution?

Hmmm...would that be correct usage if you were using it to refer to the
email discussion rather than the software? For that matter, is it a
violation of their 'trademark rights' if you are using "listserv" rather
than "Listserv®" to refer to a discussion and not a software? Wouldn't it be
more of a homonym, in that case? A homonym that happens to be spelled the
same as the 'other' word. For that matter, lots of people spell it
(erroneously?) "listserve."