"Dan Harkless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Simon Burge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It seems that some MUA's didn't handle y2k very well - ELM seems to be
>> one of them, and Ultrix's DXmail (based on MH!). I've got a few emails
>> this month that look like:
>> 575 Jan 00 Xxxxxx Xxxx 3603 ...
>> and
>> 22+ Jan 00 Xxx Xxxxx 1771 ...
>> The first has "15 Jan 100" as the date and the second has "19 Jan 00" as
>> the date. The following works around this so that scan, show, sortm, etc
>> work ok.
>> This patch uses windowing, so it may be subject to stoopid patent claims
>> in some countries :-)
>Are you serious?? What countries have patent claims like that? Never heard
>of this issue...
I expect that he is referring to the good old U.S.A. Apparently the
patent office has awarded a patent to some sort of windowing methods
for y2k. I haven't been able to find the full details of what is
patented. I guess I am curious as to whether the windowing I used
for dates in 1983 will be retroactively declared to violate that
recent patent.
-NWR
