An unnamed Administration source, ronnie gauthier, wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:36:59 -0400 - Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the > following > Re: (fwd) OT: up2date patent? > > I read the patent. Look like it does pretty much cover a lot of services out > there. > Kurt, you been on line long enough to be familiar with FIDOnet?
I've heard of it and know of it, but never had need to use it. > A seperate application(door) loaded onto a bbs and serving the early relative of > email all across the US and farther? With some major servers located at > universities/corps and larger BBS's as hubs and then smaller BBS's transfering > to each other to pass and collect messsages from source to hubs. > FIDOnet started in 1984 and BBs's around 77 so if FIDO does not fit that > description I'm sure some BBS software had auto update features at least to > some extent. Well, the existence of prior art had seems to matter to the USPTO anymore. Kurt -- Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
