[Air-l] public domain?

[Alexander Halavais]

Snopes has a write-up discussing this and poking at some of the soft
points:

http://www.snopes2.com/history/american/gauge.htm

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Ed Lamoureux wrote:

> 
> I suspect that most of you will recognize the narrative I'm going to paste
> in, below. I nabbed it off the web (someplace long forgotten)...and have
> seen it in a variety of forms over the years.