Re: [Asrg] user-level blacklisting patented

[Troy Rollo <asrg at troy.rollo.name>]

On Thursday 17 March 2005 01:31, Peter Kay wrote:

>  We take the mail-from/rcpt-to pair to decide whether to return an error
> before the DATA command is accepted.

If anybody needs to challenge this, I can provide evidence of both obviousness 
and prior art. And when I say obvious, it's obvious like 1 + 1 = 2 is 
obvious. I've been using such things since around 1996, and it took me all of 
about 2 seconds after starting to do block lists to realise this would be a 
useful thing to do.

It's not as if we needed more evidence that a software patent is more likely 
to be filed by an ignorant person who only thinks they're being clever than 
by a genuinely inventive person.
--
Troy Rollo
asrg at troy.rollo.name   Executive Director, iCAUCE

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