Microsoft today signed up to use the Brightmail Solution Suite SMTP gateway to tackle the junk mail bombarding Hotmail accounts. This is intended to hoover up some of the vast amounts of junk mail before it reaches the user.
According to Rick Holzli, general manager of MSN Hotmail, "unsolicited junk e-mail is a global problem in the industry today that affects not just Hotmail users, but e-mail users everywhere." Yes but... anyone who has ever used Hotmail knows that junkmail is much, much worse on its service than with other ISPs.
Brightmail’s patented technology leverages the Probe Network, a collection of more than 200 million e-mail addresses designed to attract spam, identify and eliminate spam before it reaches Hotmail users’ mailboxes. Brightmail’s proven solution provides superior protection against unsolicited junk e-mail by offering a dynamic technology that keeps pace with constantly evolving spam.
News source: The Register
View: Brightmail Press Release - MSN and Brightmail Join Forces to Combat Spam (18th September 2002)
According to Rick Holzli, general manager of MSN Hotmail, "unsolicited junk e-mail is a global problem in the industry today that affects not just Hotmail users, but e-mail users everywhere." Yes but... anyone who has ever used Hotmail knows that junkmail is much, much worse on its service than with other ISPs.
Brightmail’s patented technology leverages the Probe Network, a collection of more than 200 million e-mail addresses designed to attract spam, identify and eliminate spam before it reaches Hotmail users’ mailboxes. Brightmail’s proven solution provides superior protection against unsolicited junk e-mail by offering a dynamic technology that keeps pace with constantly evolving spam.
News source: The Register View: Brightmail Press Release - MSN and Brightmail Join Forces to Combat Spam (18th September 2002)
"The director of the Adelaide Institute has published material on the world wide web which is reasonably likely, in all of the circumstances, to offend, insult, humiliate and intimidate Jewish Australians or a group of Jewish Australians," Judge Branson ruled.
Executive Council of Australian Jewry president Jeremy Jones said the decision struck a blow against organised racism in Australia.
"This case won't end hate material on the internet but does indicate that if you have been vilified on the net, and thought it was too complex to deal with, you now have some legal precedent to assist you to maintain your human rights."
Dr Toben, who has spent seven months in a German jail for inciting racial hatred and defaming the memory of the dead, said the decision marked the end of free speech in Australia, and he would appeal.
"It's terrible for our moral and intellectual integrity not being able to question the Holocaust," Dr Toben said.
Australian Council of Civil Liberties president Terry O'Gorman criticised the ruling, saying it would interfere with a person's fundamental right of freedom of speech.
"No matter how stupid and misguided Toben's views are, freedom of speech means the right to be stupid," Mr O'Gorman said.
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