-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 27 August 2002 07:45 am, Justin Mason wrote: > Tony Svanstrom, on SpamAssassin-talk, noted this US patent: > > http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netah >tml/PTO/search-adv.html&r=62&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&s1=spam&p=2&OS=haiku&RS=spam > > Method of anti-spam > > Abstract > > A method of anti-spam is to set an optional trustcode, or a trustlist, or > at least a trustweb based on online mail delivery at a recipient's e-mail > address. A mail sender is compelled at the first time to deliver a mail > by way of: taking the way of "Visiting trustweb and sending online", or > enclosing the recipient's trustcode in the mail and sending in another way > other than the mentioned. After the sender's e-mail address has been stored > automatically in the recipient's trustlist, the sender may send mails to > the same recipient in whatever the ways feasible. > > > Sounds a lot like TMDA to me. :( Filing date is July 26, 2001, granted > May 16, 2002. > > TMDAers, have you seen this before? I'd presume TMDA is prior art, but > still, it could be troublesome... > > I took a bit of time to review what is on the above URL. If I were a news editor, the headline would be:
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