Steve, I think that I will instead treat IBM-MAIN as a species of disclosure journal. That way anyone who wants to circumvent a patent on the original notion will be able to use my public-domain one to do so.
My idea is not of course a really new one. In the old days---I have no notion how things are done today---IBM salesmen's on-line order placements were, for example, 'eavesdropped' upon to produce marketing statisticsd for IBM's management. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
