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  • AT&T ends email spam

    From Vint Surf@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 1 14:13:09 2021
    April 1 2021, Stanford, California

    AT&T today received patent 15358978 for an auto-responder
    which effectively stops spammers in their tracks.
    Efftard Donglemeier, group leader of the 1300 person
    anti-spam and abuse team, spoke to reporters Thursday.

    "This may be the final answer for spam" said Donglemeier,
    speaking from their newly constructed anti-spam campus
    located in the verdant California hills just above
    Stanford University. "When a customer sends a complaint
    to abuse(at)att.net, within 120 days or less, we send an
    auto-response thanking them for their input. In addition,
    we provide links to both our Terms of Service (TOS)
    and Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). By simply clicking
    on these links with a "web-browser", a user can verify
    for him or herself that we indeed have a strict
    anti-spam policy posted on our website. Once a
    spammed customer reads and understands this policy,
    there is virtually no chance that they will receive
    another unwanted email from the sender's email address.

    Donglemeier then went on to explain the details of
    how these "auto-responses", "links", "web-sites" and
    "policies" stop spam in its tracks, and the specific
    features and technologies protected by their recent
    patent. He also reminded reporters that AT&T was a
    pioneer in the use of the ASCII character set to
    represent information posted on a web-site.

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  • From The Doctor@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Apr 1 22:29:30 2021
    In article <s45h91$4v4$[email protected]>,
    Post To Usenet <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2021-04-01 3:13 p.m., Vint Surf wrote:
    April 1 2021, Stanford, California

    AT&T today received patent 15358978 for an auto-responder
    which effectively stops spammers in their tracks.
    Efftard Donglemeier, group leader of the 1300 person
    anti-spam and abuse team, spoke to reporters Thursday.

    <SNIP>


    Good try posted on April 1 2021 April fools day.
    Didn't work but good try...



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  • From Post To Usenet@21:1/5 to Vint Surf on Thu Apr 1 16:25:37 2021
    On 2021-04-01 3:13 p.m., Vint Surf wrote:
    April 1 2021, Stanford, California

    AT&T today received patent 15358978 for an auto-responder
    which effectively stops spammers in their tracks.
    Efftard Donglemeier, group leader of the 1300 person
    anti-spam and abuse team, spoke to reporters Thursday.

    <SNIP>


    Good try posted on April 1 2021 April fools day.
    Didn't work but good try...

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Adam H. Kerman@21:1/5 to Vint Surf on Thu Apr 1 22:32:51 2021
    Vint Surf <[email protected]> wrote:

    April 1 2021, Stanford, California

    AT&T today received patent 15358978 for an auto-responder
    which effectively stops spammers in their tracks.
    Efftard Donglemeier, group leader of the 1300 person
    anti-spam and abuse team, spoke to reporters Thursday. . . .

    Thanks. That was amusing.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Scott Dorsey@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Apr 1 23:36:46 2021
    Post To Usenet <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2021-04-01 3:13 p.m., Vint Surf wrote:
    April 1 2021, Stanford, California

    AT&T today received patent 15358978 for an auto-responder
    which effectively stops spammers in their tracks.
    Efftard Donglemeier, group leader of the 1300 person
    anti-spam and abuse team, spoke to reporters Thursday.

    <SNIP>


    Good try posted on April 1 2021 April fools day.
    Didn't work but good try...

    The thing is, it was really no crazier than many of the announcements
    from major ISPs.
    --scott
    --
    "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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