[170546] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Sat Mar 29 22:35:31 2014
Date: 29 Mar 2014 22:34:56 -0400
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "Barry Shein" <bzs@world.std.com>
In-Reply-To: <21303.26502.281987.205590@world.std.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> > Don't forget "Vanquish was a complete failure, so why would this be
> > any different?" and "do I want Phil Raymond to sue me for violating
> > the patent on this exact scheme?"
>
> That was a specific reply by me to a specific suggestion of a
> mechanism refunding e-postage to the sender if one wanted an e-mail or
> leaving the charge if not.
>
> As I said I think it's overly complex in implementation and not of
> much benefit.
>
> I don't see where Vanquish does any of this from the product site tho
> I could look at the patents, they might cover more than they used in
> products of course.
Really, this is a WKBI from 1997. Look at the patent if you don't believe
me.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
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