Cornfield has also proposed a national government directory of official candidate Web sites, to help steer voters away from parody sites.

The Bush campaign, which has acquired a large number of domain names to prevent parody sites, had apparently never purchased the Bush-Cheney combination.

So far, the Bush campaign seems to have suffered the greatest sting from parody sites, particularly over questions about whether he used drugs.

In it, Ginsberg contends that the parody site constitutes an "independent expenditure" under federal election law.

Similar names had been used for parody sites such as oralse.

A parody site, Stale (http:// www.stale.com), pretends to offer a printed version, "thereby defeating the purpose of being on the Web."

On the parody site, that has been changed to "Extreme Leadership for the Future."

To clarify its position as a parody site, ScienTOMogy contained a disclaimer, which it requested that the reader "understand and agree to.

Some of the "missing" emails that were sent through the RNC accounts were mistakenly addressed to georgewbush.org, a parody site.