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Re: [Asrg] user-level blacklisting patented

2005-03-16 13:31:28
On 16 Mar 2005, at 14:56, Peter Kay wrote:

We fully recognized (and disclosed) that server-level white/blacklisting was
prior art. We were purposely explicit in that this is a user-level or
user-controlled black/whitelist process which according to our research was
nonexistent before Jan 2000.

No mail clients rejected/filtered mail based on address book contents prior to Jan 2000? Or is that not covered by this patent? I've only given it a brief perusal in the past 10 minutes plus IANAL.

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James Baldwin
hkp://pgp.mit.edu/baldwin(_at_)corp(_dot_)earthlink(_dot_)net

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