Re: pull mail with notifications, was Thinking outside the box - send envelope first

>> Haven't you ever wondered why nobody has ever done the obvious hack to
>> send people a message to tell them to look for updates in an RSS feed,
>> rather than polling the feed?  That's why.
>
>Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but isn't this the definition of 
>what Pingomatic, Feed Shark, and even FeedBurner's own Pingshot service do?
>
>Or does the patent specifically cover email in some fashion?

The patents cover notifications to recipients about documents intended
for them, not generic notices about public documents.

They sued Paypal and eBay and got what I gather was a fairly large
settlement.

Their oldest patent, #5,790,790, expires in August 2015.  Start
planning now.

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