From rlfrank@paradigm-omega.com Wed Aug 28 10:46:41 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.netnoteinc.com Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DAEE44158 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 05:46:04 -0400 (EDT) Received: from phobos [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:46:04 +0100 (IST) Received: from commander (168-215-122-205.gen.twtelecom.net [168.215.122.205]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g7S3irZ09415 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 2002 04:44:53 +0100 Received: from 65.91.218.127 [65.91.218.127] by commander with SMTPBeamer v3.30 ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 23:33:47 -0400 Received: from omega.paradigm-omega.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by omega.paradigm-omega.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E3E04C288 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:44:34 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Organization: Paradigm-Omega, LLC To: yyyy@example.com (Justin Mason), SpamAssassin-talk@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: patent on TMDA-like system Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 20:43:59 -0700 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.1] Cc: tmda-users@tmda.net References: <20020827144541.3236B43F99@phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com> In-Reply-To: <20020827144541.3236B43F99@phobos.labs.netnoteinc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Robin Lynn Frank Message-Id: <1030506273.18567.TMDA@omega.paradigm-omega.net> X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.61 Reply-To: Robin Lynn Frank X-Pyzor: Reported 0 times. X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=7.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,NOSPAM_INC,PGP_MESSAGE,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, RCVD_IN_OSIRUSOFT_COM,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_02_03, TO_HAS_SPACES,X_OSIRU_DUL version=2.40-cvs X-Spam-Level: -----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: "Inventor" from country that ignores patents and copyrights, seeks patent for inventing the wheel! - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Robin Lynn Frank---Director of Operations---Paradigm, Omega, LLC http://paradigm-omega.com http://paradigm-omega.net © 2002. All rights reserved. No duplication/dissemination permitted. Use of PGP/GPG encrypted mail preferred. No HTML/attachments accepted. Fingerprint: 08E0 567C 63CC 5642 DB6D D490 0F98 D7D3 77EA 3714 Key Server: http://paradigm-omega.com/keymaster.html - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9bEcKD5jX03fqNxQRAmTfAKDM6BDsePbg8fb9Ore0XuS5jB4t1wCfbTcw /PBXqXO7Pei1f9lIj4gd0/c= =PNJx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----