THE WHATIS.COM WORD-OF-THE-DAY August 8, 2003 Murkogram
________________ SPONSORED BY: Microsoft The Quick Guide to Windows Server 2003. Get the latest information on installation, new features and training. Click here! http://WhatIs.com/r/0,,16822,00.htm?microsoft ________________ TODAY'S WORD: Murkogram See our complete definition with hyperlinks at http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci917500,00.html A Murkogram is spam (unsolicited commercial e-mail) that includes a disclaimer to the effect that the message cannot be considered spam because it is in compliance with Bill S.1618 Title III, known as the Inbox Privacy Act. In 1999, U. S. Senator Frank Murkowski, for whom the Murkogram is named, proposed a law requiring that unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) messages include the sender's correct name, physical address, Internet address and telephone number, as well as an option for recipients to remove themselves from the sender's list of addresses. The proposal failed to be enacted because it was opposed by Internet service providers who said it would present them with a heavy administrative burden. Nevertheless, many spammers began to cite the proposed law as a way of legitimizing their spam. A typical boilerplate statement in the e-mail would suggest (1) that the e-mail, even though not requested, was in conformance with the (actually non-existent) law since it identified the sender, and, in some statements, (2) that the recipient had no grounds for taking action against the sender. People who send such spam are sometimes said to be Murking. Similar legislation by a different name and bill number was proposed in the U. S. House of Representatives. Some Murkers occasionally cite the House of Representatives bill number or other legislative proposals, none of which were ever enacted. As of mid-2003, several new pieces of legislation aimed at curbing spam were being considered. ______________________ RELATED TERMS: spam http://searchmobilecomputing.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid40_gci213031,00.html UCE http://searchcio.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci915787,00.html boilerplate http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci211686,00.html ______________________ SELECTED LINKS: James S. Huggins' Refrigerator Door has an article about "Spam and the Law." http://www.jamesshuggins.com/h/tek1/spam_and_law.htm Stop-Spam.org has an article called "Anti-Spam Gobernment/Legal Resources: The Opt-Out Crisis." http://www.stop-spam.org/On-Line_Spam/Legal/spamlegal_murk.shtml ______________________ TODAY'S TECH NEWS: LINUXWORLD: RED HAT PADS FUND TO FIGHT SCO, FILES COMPLAINT Red Hat kicked LinuxWorld off with a bang when it announced it has filed a complaint in federal court against SCO Group for its "unfair and deceptive" actions. Also, it pledged $1 million for a fund intended to help the open-source community fight any legal action by the SCO Group, which revealed licensing fees Linux users could pay SCO for System V as a way of avoiding legal action. http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci917777,00.html LINUXWORLD: SUN COMMITS TO OPEN SOURCE DESKTOP, NEW ALLIANCES Sun Microsystems had a busy day at LinuxWorld on Tuesday, announcing a new open-source desktop, Java 3D technologies and new partnerships. http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci917843,00.html LINUXWORLD: KERNEL CHANGES SPICE UP NEXT-GEN TECHNOLOGIES An IBM executive looks into his crystal ball and shares his predictions on how the 2.6.0 kernel, grid computing and virtualization will affect next-generation technologies. http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci917782,00.html >> Catch up on all the latest IT news at http://searchtechtarget.techtarget.com/ ______________________ Information Kit | Linux, Unix, and all the little ixes Get up to speed quickly, and be the Linux/Unix Know-IT-All at your office. http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci915803,00.html ______________________ Secret Word-of-the-Day | What is it? 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