Jan Kechel <jan(_at_)kechel(_dot_)de> writes:
i am going to raise an objection against T-Mobile's Software-Patent DE
10243243 B4.
Yes, it's a german patent-application, but it try to translate it to
english:
german original:
"Verfahren zur empfängerseitigen automatischen Behandlung von
unerwünschter elektronischer Post in Kommunikationsnetzen"
my english translation:
"Process for receiver-sided automatically handling of unwanted
electronic mail in communication-networks"
So, i found at
http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/fetchmail-features.html that:
Since version 3:
Following SMTP 571 response to a From line, fetchmail no longer
downloads the bodies of spam messages.
Since version 2:
When forwarding mail via SMTP, fetchmail respects the 571 "spam filter"
response and discards any mail that triggers it.
To rise an objection, i need to give evidence that any publicly
available program, for example fetchmail, already implemented such a
feature before 17. October 2002.
PS: you can get the original patent-application from:
https://publikationen.dpma.de/lst_pat_xpt.do?query=PN+%3D+DE10243243B4
(it probably works only at your second try because of the
session-management of that site)
Jan Kechel <jan(_at_)kechel(_dot_)de> writes:
i found out that spam-filtering is not fetchmail's work ..
I'm going to use bogofilter and Paul Graham's article "A Plan For Spam"
<http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html> for my objection.
Thanks anyway and sorry for the interruption.
A central item of said patent is claim #1, "eine Analyse auf serienweise
vorhandene inkrementierte Benutzerkennungen" (analysis for incremented
user identifiers present in quantities) - neither Paul's method nor
fetchmail nor bogofilter implement this analysis.
You should still raise the objection now (deadline Apr 26) and perhaps
send in the reasons later, if that's possible - I personally think that
patents on software methods are the wrong way.
Perhaps a poll on Bugtraq and pertinent fora (SPAM-L) can find prior art
to base your objection on.
Let me know off-list how the story ends.
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Matthias Andree