http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1375
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2004-02-05 13:06 ------- 'Brightmail coming out into the open and airing it like this worries me: they have a history of filing for patents for what they do. Given that they call this 'tremendously succesful' (or something along those words), this could become a patent battleground around the 'next big thing' in spamfiltering technology.' There are several other organisations who've been using this technique recently, so prior art exists. However it's a good point -- I would recommend that anyone who's been investigating this, and is concerned about patents, put up a webpage ASAP, detailing the idea, a little bit of code history, timestamps, pointers to web.archive.org and mailing list archives, keywords to search google for, etc. etc. so that anyone who does in the future need proof of prior art for such an "invention" can track it down and identify who did what first. I know that Mark Reynolds was talking about it on SA-talk several years ago, FWIW -- *long* before I heard of BM doing this: cf http://bl.reynolds.net.au/ksi/ ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
