• From: Bob Kline <bkline@r...>
• To: Steve Poirot <poirotsj@g...>
• Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 12:42:14 -0400 (EDT)

On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Steve Poirot wrote:

> From the Financial Times:
> 
> see www.financialtimes.com..
> 
> AFX (UK): BT TO SEEK TO EXERCISE HYPERLINK PATENT IN U.S. THROUGH
> SCIPHER

The only explanation I can think of which doesn't put BT in a pathetic
light is that they're pulling our collective leg, trying to demonstrate
with an obvious hoax the absurdity of some of the most recent
aberrations in the U.S. Patent Office.  Think Dilbert.  :->}

Bob Kline


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