UUNet's no-spam policy appears hard to enforce consistently and successfully. Other ISPs also have difficulty policing their own spam policies, eventually passing costs on to businesses and consumers.
Fighting to preserve itself as a single company, Microsoft Corp. is due to file a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia on Monday detailing its argument against a lower court finding that it broke antitrust law.
An independent review of Carnivore, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI's) Internet surveillance tool, has found that the system provides an investigator with no more information than is allowed when court orders are properly used.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned consumers on Thursday to beware of companies offering to pre-register Web sites with as-yet unapproved TLDs (top-level domains).