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Analyzing AT&T's Anti-Anti-Spam Patent

An anonymous reader writes "Dan Gillmor is reporting in his eJournal taken, in turn, from Gregory Aharonian: AT&T has apparently been awarded a patent for circumventing certain spam filters, thereby providing slimeball spammers with yet a bigger hammer!" The patent covers "A system and method for circumventing schemes that use duplication detection to detect and block unsolicited e-mail (spam.)", although it's unclear exactly what AT&T want it for.

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  1. Re:A guess... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You tried to use "Ergo" to sound smart, but failed miserably. Failures should be removed from the gene pool so as not to spread their demon seed. Ergo, you should kill yourself.