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.

On 2022-04-01 10:57 a.m., Arlo Lipof wrote:
> 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.
>
<SNIP a lot of crazy stuff>

Good try it's April 1 2022 April fools day I am
not going to fall for that.

Good try though....

On 4/1/22 09:57, Arlo Lipof wrote:
> 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.
>
its Apr 1!

Post To Usenet <posttousenet@gmail.com> wrote:
>On 2022-04-01 10:57 a.m., Arlo Lipof wrote:
>> 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.
>>
><SNIP a lot of crazy stuff>
>
>
>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
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On Fri, 1 Apr 2022 10:14:41 -0700, jrg <jeff.g.group@att.net> wrote:

>its Apr 1
If you have to explain the joke....

Time to dig up the Signetics WOM datasheet.

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In article <t27d8a$ekr$1@panix2.panix.com>,
Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>Post To Usenet <posttousenet@gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 2022-04-01 10:57 a.m., Arlo Lipof wrote:
>>> 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.
>>>
>><SNIP a lot of crazy stuff>
>>
>>
>>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."

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