Suffering, really? I'm reminded of that scene from Office Space:

Bob: "Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately."
Peter: "I wouldn't say I've been *missing* it, Bob."

They behave differently. A client normally connects to it's local mail server or its ISP's mail server on port 25. Clients normally don't generally connect to port 25 on mail servers outside the ISP's network unless they're spamming, which is why ISPs have been limiting that kind of connection from home networks.

Actually there's this magical place called 'outside' where you can get away from bad TV completely.

Cheesy drama is pretty much what we've come to expect from you, JJ.

Yeah, yeah yeah. It's not small. No, no, no

/get off my lawn

The fact that you were quoted as prior art suggests the patent only applies to improvements they made over the method you used in your code. Are there significant improvements described in the patent over what your code does?

Now if only they could get it to do HTML4 correctly.

We're not getting our money's worth.

I'll be here all night, try the ribeye, it's excellent

Like, I can totally accept the possibility of time travel, but a mobile communication device with no cell towers? Unpossible.

The ad pictured a brick wall, covered floor to ceiling with fire alarm bells. The caption was, "More security doesn't make you more secure."