[H]ardNews 8th Edition

Spam 1 – AOL 0:

Joe Alpert pointed out that AOL lost a round in court against uber-spammers because the court didn’t feel that they had jurisdiction over the case. So AOL will just re-file in the right state I guess.

The case, dismissed last week by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, claimed the defendants had conspired with others to send bulk e-mails through AOL's Virginia computer system. A statement issued by on Tuesday by the Arlington, Va. law firm of Albo & Oblon, the defendants' attorneys, said the technicians maintained e-mail systems and computer networks for customers and are not "facilitators of bulk e-mails, or spam."

I’m telling you, if we just took spammers out back and shot them…in six months, there would be no spam. Drastic? Yes. Would I do it? Don’t tempt me.

Internet Dude Knighted:

Tim Berners-Lee, the “father of the web” ( insert Al Gore joke here )has been awarded knighthood for his contributions to what we now know as the world wide web. Thanks to Danny Weaver for the linkage.

Sir Tim's inventions were the building blocks of the internet, but instead of cashing in on what would have been one of the most lucrative inventions ever, the modest, publicity-shy physicist gave away his browser and web server software freely on the internet. Other internet pioneers have accrued multi-million-pound fortunes, but Sir Tim has fought to ensure that the web was never privately owned, earning a modest salary in Boston as an academic and head of the World Wide Web Consortium, which sets web standards.

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