Re: [VANILLA-LIST:3019] technical question

["Carlos Y. Villalpando" <unbelver@us.netrek.org>]

Quoting Dave Ahn <ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu>:

> Digest messages are enhanced functionality of some mailing list managers.
> You should download and read the documentation and source for majordomo
> from http://www.greatcircle.com/majordomo/.  In particular, you want to
> look at the "digest" and "Doc/README.digest" files.  Interestingly enough,
> the digest code was originally written by J Greely in 1992.  Similar
> functionality exists in ezmail, listserv and others.

Add to that list 'listproc' version 6.0c.  I've been using that for
years, it has digests, and the copyright dates on that are '91-'93. 
Look for it at: ftp://cs-ftp.bu.edu/pub/listserv (there's a namespace
collision with a CREN product with the same name, I believe).  The
last version of 6.0c was dated 1994-Jul-12.  Plenty of documentation
in that tarball.

> > UNFORTUNATELY, YOU CAN NO LONGER PATENT SOMETHING THAT YOU
> > HAVE BEEN USING PUBLICLY FOR OVER A YEAR.
> 
> I didn't think the time limit was so small, but it does make sense.

Yup.  That's a common one.  You've got 1 year from date of first
publication to file a patent on the subject of the publication.  I
don't remember if that included submitting it for review.

Oh, and all caps is painful to read, by the way.

--Carlos V.