Some would only give access to people who provided their e-mail address, virtually guaranteeing inclusion on one or more political spam lists. Live video was, shall we say, far from TV quality. Dissemination of the text of speeches and the entire Republican platform was almost immediate. But like TV in 1948, when Republicans held their last convention in Philadelphia, it will be a while before the Internet plays a major role in political journalism. The boy, who is too young to be identified under Canadian law, stands accused of hacking into several computers, mostly at American universities, and using them to bombard prominent Web sites with thousands of simultaneous messages, flooding and thus crippling them.
Illinois town fights the future Be afraid.
If you live in the vicinity of Niles, Ill., you've probably seen the low-budget cable commercial. The ad is part of a campaign by the village of Niles to dissuade people from shopping online. Harris was added to the list after it was accused of sending spam, a charge the polling firm denies. Check out the Eyewitness Encyclopedia , an awesome resource providing more than 2 million words and 6,500 pages for your research. And we're not talking about the inmates.