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

2003-03-05 17:00:31
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 17:45:22 -0500 (EST)
"David F. Skoll" <dfs(_at_)roaringpenguin(_dot_)com> 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 wish we could shoot people who file bogus patents.

[astro] ls -l ~/src/check_mail_addr
total 350
-rw-r--r--  1 moore  wheel   4174 Jun 17  1997 822addr.c
-rw-r--r--  1 moore  wheel    149 Jun 17  1997 822addr.h
-rw-r--r--  1 moore  wheel    508 Nov  4  1999 Makefile.in
-rw-r--r--  1 moore  wheel   1141 Oct 11 12:26 README
-rw-r--r--  1 moore  wheel   4007 Oct 10 09:07 check_mail_addr.c
-rw-r--r--  1 moore  wheel     85 Jun 16  1997 config.h.in
-rwxr-xr-x  1 moore  wheel  53976 Jun 14  1999 configure
-rw-r--r--  1 moore  wheel    581 Jun 14  1999 configure.in
-rw-r--r--  1 moore  wheel    541 Jun 14  1999 configure.scan
-rw-r--r--  1 moore  wheel   5201 Jul  8  1997 getmxrr.c
-rw-r--r--  1 moore  wheel    321 Jul  6  1997 getmxrr.h
-r--r--r--  1 moore  wheel   6913 Oct 20  1997 smtp-tcp-bsd.c
-rw-r--r--  1 moore  wheel   2588 Oct 27  1997 smtp-vrfy.c
-r--r--r--  1 moore  wheel   1245 Jun 17  1997 smtp.h
-rw-r--r--  1 moore  wheel    291 Jun 17  1997 strerror.c
-rw-r--r--  1 moore  wheel  84449 Oct 11 12:12 test-data
-rw-r--r--  1 moore  wheel    347 Oct 11 12:24 test-script
-r--r--r--  1 moore  wheel    646 Jun 17  1997 text.c
-r--r--r--  1 moore  wheel    628 Jun 16  1997 text.h

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