Re: [Asrg] News: Postini patents the relay server?

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes at waltdnes.org>]

On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 04:56:20AM -0000, John Levine wrote
> Postini's patent is on the specific technique of preprocessing
> someone's mail by setting up the MX to point to an offsite
> preprocessing server that redelivers the laundered mail to the actual
> server.  It's not a patent on general mail relay.

  Don't look now, Postini has just patented outsourcing.  Think of all
the western corporations who've been doing this for years.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
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