Network Associates is granted BROAD anti-spam Patent!

[John Rudd]

Wayne Fox wrote:
>
> Network Associates is granted broad antispam patent
> Posted June 1, 10:54 a.m. Pacific Time
>
> Network Associates Inc. (NAI) has been granted a broad U.S. patent for
> technology covering "various computer program products, systems and
> methods" for filtering unwanted e-mail messages, it said Tuesday.   >>
> READ MORE
>
> Can MailScanner prove it implemented Bayes rules and compound
> filtering First? (December 2002)
>
>


1) MailScanner doesn't impliment bayesian filters.  Spam Assassin does.

2) IIRC, SA had it at least as far back as the summer of 2002.

3) SA's core project exists outside of the US, last time I checked, so
I'm not sure how this will interact with SA anyway.

4) for that matter, MailScanner's core project is in the UK, so even if
it was MS's implimentation, I don't know how that would interact either.

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