I'm sitting here looking at my T-Mobile Sidekick (from Danger Inc.) that has a nice, shiny, multi-colored, variable speed LED rotator dial.
Seems to fall nicely into the same catagory as the posting.
Not to mention multicolor leds have been used in quite a few peices of hardware in a similar way (read, write, off, on, syscheck) that would sound like prior art to me!
Something like JBMail (http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/trialware/jbmail.ht ml) allows you to look at the to, from, and size and delete the offending junk.
I used it corporately when some people send huge attachments that don't clear (because the Pres. says don't block based on size...sheeesh!)
Also good for checking mail server status.
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Seems to fall nicely into the same catagory as the posting.
Not to mention multicolor leds have been used in quite a few peices of hardware in a similar way (read, write, off, on, syscheck) that would sound like prior art to me!
Something like JBMail (http://www.pc-tools.net/win32/trialware/jbmail.ht ml) allows you to look at the to, from, and size and delete the offending junk.
I used it corporately when some people send huge attachments that don't clear (because the Pres. says don't block based on size...sheeesh!)
Also good for checking mail server status.