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The Federal Trade Commission will not immediately start a national Do Not E-Mail list, despite a law passed last year that calls for the agency to develop a plan for such a list.
A Do Not E-Mail list would likely be used by spammers to send consumers more unwanted commercial e-mail, FTC Chairman Timothy Muris says. The FTC, in a report to Congress on Tuesday, instead advocates Internet service providers continue to work on domain-level e-mail sender authentication, technologies that would require e-mail to come from the domain it says it's from.
"Under current technology, any Do Not E-Mail list would become a do-spam list," Muris said at a press conference. "Consumers will be spammed if we do a registry and spammed if we do not."
In the meantime, e-mail users trying to limit their exposure to spam should use spam filters and keep their e-mail addresses off public Web sites and chat rooms.Congress could still require the FTC to create the Do Not E-Mail list, but Muris says Congress would have to pass a new bill for a Do Not E-Mail list to happen. As part of the FTC's spam-fighting plan required by CAN-SPAM, the FTC plans to host a workshop on e-mail authentication later this year.
edKENdance
06-16-2004, 12:01 AM
Damn Spammers! But on the bright side; my penis is 40 feet long, and my breasts are a full cupsize bigger. As soon as I get my money from my new Nigerian friend I'll have it made in the shade. :)
An America Online software engineer was charged Wednesday with harvesting a list of 92 million customer screen names that was eventually used to send spam.
Jason Smathers, 24, was arrested at his home in Harpers Ferry, W.Va., authorities in New York said.
Smathers, working at AOL offices in Dulles, Va., stole the list of screen names and sold it to another man, Sean Dunaway, of Las Vegas, who repeatedly sold the list to spammers, federal prosecutors said in a criminal complaint.
Dunaway, 21, also was arrested at his home Wednesday, authorities said.
Both men were charged with conspiracy. Their lawyers could not immediately be located for comment.
Smathers was fired Wednesday, an AOL spokesman said. Dunaway did not work for the company.
Microsoft's Mac Business Unit has released a significant update for Office 2004 for Mac.
A host of improvements have been made across Microsoft's productivity applications.
In Word, AutoRecover now functions correctly when Mac OS X's FileVault feature is enabled.
Security has also been improved when opening documents including macros--Word, Excel, and PowerPoint now support an additional level of security that affects macros that open other Office documents containing macros. You can use the Application.AutomationSecurity property to set the level of security desired.
PowerPoint users can expect improved performance when they play movies within a slide show, better font compatibility, improved behavior when dragging objects on a slide when the ruler is turned on.
Entourage also sees improvements, with improved connectivity, status displays, and better support for emailing IPhoto files.
Microsoft has issued a patch for a compatibility problem between the recent Windows XP Service Pack 2 and an advertising application run on many users' machines.
The service pack was causing system crashes due to a conflict with a hidden app from Total Velocity Software, called TV Media.
When SP2 was released in August, a large number of users contacted Microsoft's technical support complaining that the update was causing their computer to repeatedly restart. The problem was due to the hidden presence of TV Media, which is designed to be invisible to users except when it is displaying advertisements.
Affected computers shut down and restarted repeatedly, displaying the following message: "A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer... "
Microsoft debuted a preview of its long-anticipated desktop search as part of a toolbar suite that integrates with Windows, Internet Explorer, and the company's Outlook e-mail client.
The new tools put Microsoft into the race for the title of desktop search champ with rivals Google and Yahoo. Google rolled out its Desktop Search application in early October, while last week, Yahoo promised to release its local search utility next month.
Microsoft Corp. has kicked off a new program aimed at severely curtailing the ways people using pirated copies of its Windows operating system can get software updates.
When a computer user starts to download updates, the new program, called Windows Genuine Advantage, will scan the machine to see if it's running an authentic version of Windows.
If the program detects a counterfeit copy, it will offer two options:
_Customers who fill out a piracy report, provide proof of purchase and send in the counterfeit CDs will get a free copy of Windows Home Edition, which retails for $199, or Windows Professional, which sells for $299.
_Those who simply submit a piracy report - giving details of when, where and from whom the operating system was purchased - and send in the counterfeit copy will get either version of Windows at half price.
In other news enrollment in Linux courses are up 1000%.
They forgot about the third option, sue your a$$ off and put you in jail with murderers and child molesters.
In other news enrollment in Linux courses are up 1000%.
They forgot about the third option, sue your a$$ off and put you in jail with murderers and child molesters.
Rightfully so.
Makes me wonder how many have actually taken a trip down that path. I for one am glad they have started doing this...........
NEW YORK (AP) - Opera Software ASA is now giving away its Web browser and removing ads in an effort to broaden its user base and capture revenues by referring traffic to search engines and e-commerce sites.
Before the availability of Opera version 8.5 this week, users who downloaded the browser had to either pay $39 or view ads while browsing. Its competitors, including Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer and Mozilla's Firefox, carried no such requirement.
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