Archives for September, 2004
Best SPF/Sender ID Quote Ever
Thursday, September 23rd, 2004
Picked up a copy of DM News today, and there was a front page story on the Sender ID/SPF fiasco, and what mailers will have to do to comply with the various standards now out there.
Meng Wong, author of SPF, provided a quote that just wraps up the situation perfectly:
“If your 5-year-old wants McDonald’s and [...]
The Rules of Technology Development Projects
Thursday, September 23rd, 2004
Subheading: Hardware
Rule Zero
The hardware platform upon which your new code is going to be deployed must be in place, running, and trusted well in advance of the scheduled application testing.
Rule One
Complying with Rule Zero will an amount of time equal to n, where n is slightly greater than the reasonable amount of time allotted for [...]
Sorry, my mistake: more on MS and IP
Tuesday, September 21st, 2004
One of these days I’m going to be able to get a title that’s entirely abbreviations…
Anyway, it appears that my earlier estimation of how Microsoft would respond to the Sender ID fiasco was a bit off. As a refresher, I said that:
If Microsoft were looking for a purely defensive patent, they could eliminate the [...]
It Used to Suck to be a Web Browser’s Search Function
Monday, September 20th, 2004
Yeah, the title is a dupe, but it’s been kind of a long day and I can’t think of anything more clever. I’ve just noticed the best Web browser seach functionality ever, though, so I have to post this, with or without clever bits.
So have you installed the latest release of Firefox? Have [...]
More about IP, less about People’s Asses
Friday, September 17th, 2004
Good morning, all.
On Tuesday, I posted a little note on an absurd (and probably useless) patent. This post also contained some of my thoughts regarding the USPTO and a lawyer’s ass, which appears to have been the part that really resonated with most people. In an effort to be taken seriously as a [...]
No, seriously, comparing two things is “non-obvious”…
Tuesday, September 14th, 2004
And so the wonderful world of intellectual property law rolls along. A company by the name of Commtouch today announced that it has acquired a patent covering a method of identifying and eliminating spam.
While — as always — you should take a look at the actual source documents yourselves, let’s take a look [...]
It’s 10AM…do you know how much email you have?
Friday, September 10th, 2004
I’ve complained about this before…the tradeoffs that come with ease of communication. Was the slower pace of business (and life) pre-email/IM actually all that bad? It’s 10:00 in the morning and I have 46 new email messages sitting in my inbox, starting from 6:15am. <sigh>
Polite User Agent String?
Thursday, September 9th, 2004
So can anybody tell me anything about the RSS reader/bot/what-have-you that identifies itself with the very well-mannered user agent string of “please”?
The (very small) sample set of subscribers to this Feedburner feed seems to confirm what I’ve heard about usage patterns (Bloglines and NewsGator battling it out for the top two spots, pretty much all [...]
ASF Rejects Sender ID / del.icio.us Down
Thursday, September 2nd, 2004
Part One
The Apache Software Foundation has written an open letter to the MARID IETF Working Group, stating that the license under which Sender ID is being distributed is incompatible with the Apache License 2.0.
Says the letter:
The current Microsoft Royalty-Free Sender ID Patent License Agreement terms are a barrier to any ASF project which wants to [...]
