Today's News: Antispam bill -- Savior or toothless wonder?

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A newsletter published by TechTarget   December 12, 2003 >> Receive this e-mail as text   >> About this e-mail  ISSUE SPONSORED BY: >>  Microsoft: Microsoft Empower Program for ISVs  Top News of the Week  >>  A brief reprieve, a new beta SPONSORED BY: Microsoft Grow your business with 5 MSDN Universal subscriptions, internal use licenses, online newsgroups, concierge, and resource guides when you sign up for Microsoft's Empower Program for ISVs. When you join the Microsoft Empower program, you will automatically be entered to win one of one hundred Logitech Quick Cam Pro 4000 web cameras to be given away before January 31, 2004! Click here to register.  Week In Review  Antispam bill: Savior or toothless wonder? By John Hogan, News Editor We now have a national do not call list to protect us from those loathsome telemarketing calls at dinnertime. A do not spam law, to protect us from those loathsome round-the-clock junk e-mails, may not be far behind, if President Bush signs the bill that Congress passed this week. But are we really getting what's advertised here? Proponents of the legislation say the law will help users take back their inboxes from spammers, who would be prohibited from disguising their identities through spoofed return addresses and deceptive subject lines. It would also push the Federal Trade Commission to create a national do not spam list modeled after the do not call list that consumers have rushed to sign up for. Click here to read more of John's views on antispam legislation and other top news of the week. More on this topic: >  Congress approves first national antispam legislation >  Microsoft clarifies intentions to retire products >  Microsoft preps Windows XP Service Pack 2 >  Mystery patch blots Microsoft's fix-free month >  New flaw found in Windows Messenger Service  Survival Tips for the Windows Manager   Check your Windows port associations If you are a user of Windows out of the box, you should be aware of one weakness. The UDP and TCP ports used to support file and print sharing, directory services and name resolution can be used on any local area network. But for any link to the Internet, they definitely can not. There is one way to get around this. To find out more, read this user friendly tip. Chapter of the week: Active Directory Schema This chapter from the book Inside Active Directory, by Sakara Kouti and Mika Seitsonen, describes the Active Directory data model and the way in which the rules of the schema enforce it. You can approach this chapter with three purposes: To understand how AD works behind the scenes; to enhance administration by learning, for example, which attributes are indexed to make searches faster; to learn the tech background to extend the schema of your forest. Ask Rod Trent: SUS scheduling on the client side Dear Rod: Is there a way to automate or script SUS scheduling on the client side for Windows 2000 and XP? In other words, is there a way to change the server name/and or time that the client updates with the SUS server? We aren't using Active Directory. TRUE IT BLOOPERS Oops! True IT blooper #121: Oh my god, what have I done? We've all had that sinking feeling, when you realize that what you thought was right was absolutely wrong. For Software Manager Chris Tate-Davies, that rush of emotion came when he was a junior staffer charged with protecting a disk full of mission critical company documents. What happened next is recounted here in Tate-Davies' own words. 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