Subject: Email patents: How stupid is too stupid?

From: Graham Klyne <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 09:57:20 +0000

At 07:15 18/12/99 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 04:27:36PM -0600, Richard Shockey wrote:
>[...]
>> 
>> Excellent idea... HTTP Push to a defined directory with email notification 
>> of an appropriate URL. One problem.
>> 
>> 
>>          http://www.patents.ibm.com/patlist?icnt=US&patent_number=5790790
>
>You would be hard pressed to come up with a more absurd patent...

So one would hope, but ... :-(

(Oh well, back to shuffling deck chairs.)

#g

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Graham Klyne
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