some internet news

[David Goldstein <goldstein_david@yahoo.com.au>]

Chain mail hated more than porn  
Chain email is more hated than pornographic email, credit offers and
emails about money-making ventures, a new survey has found.
 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/06/21/1023864494969.html

Censor secrecy okay: tribunal
Australian internet censors will continue their work in secret,
following an Administrative Appeals Tribunal decision to withhold
information about banned content.

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,4526459%255E15306,00.html

Bush fights to censor libraries' net
THE Bush Administration has renewed its legal fight against internet
pornography, asking the US Supreme Court to permit Congress to
pressure public libraries to block sexually explicit websites. 

http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,4551970%5E15318%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html

New Internet Domains A Year Or More Away 
Internet users looking for alternatives to "dot-com" and a handful of
other existing address suffixes will have to wait at least another
year, the president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
and Numbers (ICANN) said today. 
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A605-2002Jun17.html

Surfing as free as a cloud
It is a new kind of network: fast, wireless internet access broadcast
from rooftops and church steeples, available to all for free.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,740754,00.html

What's in a Names.co 
With a Chelsea mews house, a gin palace in the Med and a place on
Sydney Harbour, Ian Gowrie-Smith, the Australian chairman of FTSE 250
drug company SkyePharma, is one of the London market's more colourful
characters. 
Therefore, it is hardly surprising that his plans for Names.co
Internet, a tiny domain name company in which has amassed a 29%
stake, are setting tongues wagging. 
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/internetnews/story/0,7369,741242,00.html

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