April 1 2022, Stanford, California
AT&T today received patent 5358978 for an auto-responder
which effectively stops spammers in their tracks.
Efftard Donglemeier, group leader of the 1300 person
anti-spam and abuse team, spoke to reporters Thursday.
"This may be the final answer for spam" said Donglemeier,
speaking from their newly constructed anti-spam campus
located in the verdant California hills just above
Stanford University. "When a customer sends a complaint
to abuse(at)att.net, within 120 days or less, we send an
auto-response thanking them for their input. In addition,
we provide links to both our Terms of Service (TOS)
and Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). By simply clicking
on these links with a "web-browser", a user can verify
for him or herself that we indeed have a strict
anti-spam policy posted on our website. Once a
spammed customer reads and understands this policy,
there is virtually no chance that they will receive
another unwanted email from the sender's email address.
Donglemeier then went on to explain the details of
how these "auto-responses", "links", "web-sites" and
"policies" stop spam in its tracks, and the specific
features and technologies protected by their recent
patent. He also reminded reporters that AT&T was a
pioneer in the use of the ASCII character set to
represent information posted on a web-site.
April 1 2022, Stanford, California
AT&T today received patent 5358978 for an auto-responder
which effectively stops spammers in their tracks.
Efftard Donglemeier, group leader of the 1300 person
anti-spam and abuse team, spoke to reporters Thursday.
On 2022-04-01 10:57 a.m., Arlo Lipof wrote:
April 1 2022, Stanford, California<SNIP a lot of crazy stuff>
AT&T today received patent 5358978 for an auto-responder
which effectively stops spammers in their tracks.
Efftard Donglemeier, group leader of the 1300 person
anti-spam and abuse team, spoke to reporters Thursday.
Good try it's April 1 2022 April fools day I am
not going to fall for that.
Good try though....
Post To Usenet <posttousenet@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2022-04-01 10:57 a.m., Arlo Lipof wrote:
April 1 2022, Stanford, California<SNIP a lot of crazy stuff>
AT&T today received patent 5358978 for an auto-responder
which effectively stops spammers in their tracks.
Efftard Donglemeier, group leader of the 1300 person
anti-spam and abuse team, spoke to reporters Thursday.
Good try it's April 1 2022 April fools day I am
not going to fall for that.
Good try though....
Yeah, everybody knows that's not patentable. There's lots of prior art
from uunet and hosteurope and ovh...
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
its Apr 1If you have to explain the joke....
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