On 2/18/2012 5:39 PM, Carl S. Gutekunst wrote:
He holds the patent for Auto-reply, among other things.
Yeah, he's characterizing it that generically. The patent claims are rather
more constrained.
I don't remember when auto-replying happened first, but I'm pretty sure it was
the 70s. Certainly sendmail enabled such capabilities. Arguably so did MMDF.
My guess it was in some earlier systems.
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