Wednesday, April 30, 2003

Today seems to be the day for articles on Spam.  The first is about new legislation and the next three are about spam filters. Spam Sent by Fraud Is Made a Felony Under Virginia Law. In the toughest move to date against unsolicited commercial e-mail, Virginia enacted a law imposing harsh new felony penalties, including prison time. By Saul Hansell. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 1:11:15 PM    comments? [] SpamSubtract PRO. Easily the most complicated product we tested, SpamSubtract PRO is also the most flexible, and it supports the greatest number of mail clients. [Fresh Reviews from PC Magazine] 1:06:08 PM    comments? [] Goodbye Spam. Like ChoiceMail, NexGen's Goodbye Spam fights junk mail without complex analytics, using only a whitelist and a blacklist to filter your e-mail in-box, and it helps you build these lists by mailing challenge messages to unknown senders. [Fresh Reviews from PC Magazine] 1:05:37 PM    comments? []

Tuesday, March 25, 2003

WSJ on warblogs of journos, military enlistees (and shutdown of kevinsites.net). Today's Wall Street Journal features an article on war, weblogs, disinformation -- and the suspension of kevinsites.net. THE DAY ALLIED FORCES began their invasion of Iraq, a Navy lieutenant based in the Gulf posted some news on his personal Web site: "Saddam fired a couple of those Scuds that he doesn't have at me." On another personal Web site someone claiming to be a Baghdad resident wrote that "there are more Ba'ath people in the streets and they have more weapons." Kevin Mickey, a Navy lieutenant commander at Camp Patriot, Kuwait, noted on his site that "we had a minor dust storm yesterday" and said the camp's missile alarms were going off repeatedly. On top of the 500 reporters traveling with the military and the three cable-TV news channels beaming 24-hour coverage there's a new element in this war: unfiltered eyewitness accounts online. Soldiers and citizens in the war zone are publishing in real time on their own Web sites. Families are posting on the Web the e-mails sent home by relatives in the service. And free-lance reporters -- not subject to restrictions by the Pentagon or large media outlets -- are writing online for a new world-wide audience. In all, the glut of information from the Gulf -- from the important to the trivial -- is creating a dizzying panoply of detail, as well as half-truths. Link to WSJ story via Yahoo, Discuss [Boing Boing Blog] 2:52:16 PM    comments? []

Saturday, March 22, 2003

CyberJournalist.net: Iraq Conflict Coverage Weblog http://www.cyberjournalist.net/features/iraqcoverage.html Includes blogs from "embedded" journalists (even MTV has a correspondent there!), news sites' complete coverage pages, interactive graphics and stories, and more. Among the recent additions: a 3-D map of Iraq, and Jerusalem Post's audio reports from the field. From Marylaine's Neat New Stuff on the Net 12:01:35 PM    comments? []

Wednesday, March 19, 2003

Another warning about a problem with Microsoft Windows Windows flaw opens PCs to attack. A vulnerability that affects all versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system could allow attackers to run programs on a victim's PC. [CNET News.com] 3:47:31 PM    comments? []

Tuesday, March 18, 2003

Gator Be Gone!. Here's a little tip for Internet Explorer users if you're tired of Gator and its attempts to install itself on your PC. "Hopefully by now you have removed that password manager/form filler Gator since it's gotten a bad reputation as spyware.  As an added precaution to keep the software from installing unwanted files on your system, also consider adding Gator to your list of restricted sites.  To do this, click on Tools, Internet Options, Security tab, and the Restricted Sites icon. Click on Sites and type 'gator.com' without the quotes into the 'Add this Web Site to the zone', then click on Add and OK." [Neat Net Tricks, 3/15/2003] [The Shifted Librarian] 12:34:17 PM    comments? []

Wednesday, March 12, 2003

President Signed "Do Not Call" Registry Bill. H.R. 395, The Do-Not-Call Implementation Act, 117 Stat. 557; 2 pages, "To authorize the Federal Trade Commission to collect fees... [beSpacific] 1:32:38 PM    comments? []

Tuesday, March 11, 2003

The Secret Guide to Computers - Toc. The Secret Guide to Computers - Toc A lot of detail about computers explained in very simple, direct language. 3/11/2003 [Library Techlog] 2:34:44 PM    comments? []

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