Which brings us to the evolution of e-mail etiquette . . . The government confronts a Microsoft executive with a series of embarrassing e-mails showing efforts to shove Internet Explorer down customers' throats. He dismisses the correspondence as irrelevant. By Ronald Warren Deutsch.
People assume that their home pages disappear once they pull the plug.
Every two months, it scoops up the entire Web and stores the results on its virtual shelves. It has preserved my expired site, and it may well have yours. A unanimous, four-judge panel last week dismissed the complaint filed by a Boy Scout in whose name fictitious membership accounts were created in order to send the offending messages. The court likened Prodigy's role in the affair to a telephone carrier. While a number of submissions noted that technology based filtering and rating systems are more effective than regulation to prohibit or control access to online content, support was expressed for extending the Australian Broadcasting Authority's role to include the regulation of content provided by online service providers.