[OT] Software patents for the obvious (and not so obvious)

[Man-wai Chang]

I don't know why the sender be identified when you are really trying to
block spam. If you are to do it against IP/person, the ISP should take
up the job via their DHCP records. Do we need sender ID?

> Not so ridiculous and more annoying is Microsoft's attempt to patent and 
> lycence "Sender ID", proposed to the IETF as an anti-spam security 
> standard, see eg.


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