By Marguerite Reardon
Published: Friday 16 January 2004
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Anonymous
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London
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Hmmmm isn't this method of substituting a . for an @ pretty much the way a standard DNS server lists email addresses?
If so how can this be said to be a "new" idea and therefore patentable?
Given the ridiculous way intellectual property, copyright and patent law now seem to be applied in direct contrvention of common sense it shouldn't suprise me
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