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Daily Hotmail at it again By Paul Hales: Wednesday 16 October 2002, 18:25 HOTMAIL IS UP TO ITS DIRTY TRICKS AGAIN. Users weighed down under the virtual weight of incoming spam take the wise step of filtering out and burning those spams which invariably emanate from the increasingly-sophisticated spammers of the world. Filtering out the incoming mails with the word 'debt' in the subject line works a treat for example, dumping a fair proportion of the spams wending their merry way into the size-limited inboxes of Hotmail users. Users determined, as we know, to keep using the service for free,...

It seems remarkable to me that the judges in the Federal Appellate Court in Philadelphia could come to the decision that they did. Obviously none of them have used a filtered internet service. Or maybe they themselves just love their porn and begin to get huffy anytime some moralistic person claims its not the best thing. Nonetheless their ruling last week that CIPA, the Children's Internet Protection Act, was too broad and would block speech that was protected was utterly ignorant. Though they are not alone. In Illinois last week, a bill that was designed to require all public libraries...

How many traumatized children will it take? Evidently this is the question that the politicos in charge are willing to ask. Chicago has long been thought of as a classic political machine kind of town. Elected officials weighing the potential damage a specific set of circumstances or scenarios will exact before they are forced to make their change. For Mayor Daley of Chicago and his library commissioner Mary Dempsey the conflict here is becoming increasingly apparent. Chicago is the national home for the nationally acclaimed "Pedophiles are us" organization, otherwise known as, the American Library Association. The ALA is committed...