(fwd) OT: up2date patent?

[Kurt Wall]

An unnamed Administration source, ronnie gauthier, wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:36:59 -0400 - Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> 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
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