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Re: Patents (was Re: [Asrg] Time for the ISPs to fight back!)

2003-03-05 15:57:28
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:45:22PM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote:
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Clifton Royston wrote:
  People might want to look at the recently-implemented Postfix
sender verification feature in current snapshot releases.

This technique is patented and assigned to ESCOM Corporation, in US
Patent #6,321,267 (see the section "Active User Testing")

The patent was filed 23 November 1999; if you think you have prior
art, I encourage you to publish it.

  I certainly don't have any awareness of any; I did not claim to
originate the feature.

  I appreciate your notice, and will forward it to Wietse Venema, the
author of Postfix.

  This is quite annoying.

  -- Clifton

-- 
     Clifton Royston  --  LavaNet Systems Architect --  
cliftonr(_at_)lava(_dot_)net

  "If you ride fast enough, the Specialist can't catch you."
  "What's the Specialist?" Samantha says. 
  "The Specialist wears a hat," says the babysitter. "The hat makes noises."
  She doesn't say anything else.  
                      Kelly Link, _The Specialist's Hat_
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