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

On 20/03/2013 10:01, Dan Oetting wrote:
> On Mar 19, 2013, at 16:34, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>>> 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.
> It sounds like they ought to be suing the post office for delivering those little notes saying they have a registered letter for you. Or, go after AOL for their "You've got mail!".
>
I get email from my bank saying 'log on to read a secure message for 
you'. Sounds like that's against the patent as well



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