[LINK] Western Australia - Court sends message to junk e-mail company

[Jan Whitaker]

The Australian IT section has some good stuff today, too.

Like:
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,5286113%5E15321%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html
>Biometric checks must improve
>Karen Dearne
>OCTOBER 15, 2002
>
>THE accuracy of biometric systems needs to improve if widespread 
>acceptance is to be achieved, the Biometrics Institute Conference has been 
>warned.
>
>ANZ Bank fraud risk head Lawrence Cox said a 1.6 per cent false acceptance 
>rate "on 80 million cheques issued across Australia in 2001 would mean 
>more than one million cheques being issued and accepted falsely".
>"In 2001, we identified that 12,500 cheques had been falsely issued, so 
>there's a big difference there," he said. "How much is that in dollar terms?
>

also commentary on Balmer's visit, Telstra's attempt to get industry 
funding for broadband developments, TIO looking at capping broadband 
throughput, and e-voting.

Caution: it's another one of those sluggish websites.  hit and miss response.

Jan

At 07:15 AM 15/10/02 +1000, you wrote:
>"Front page" on the Age online:
>
>Court sends message to junk e-mail company
>
>October 15 2002
>By Tom Wald
>
>
>A Western Australian court has thrown out a civil case in which a direct 
>marketing company wanted to sue a Perth man for complaining about its 
>unsolicited bulk e-mails, or "spam".
>
>The company, t3-direct, had claimed it had lost $43,000 in business after 
>Perth electronics repairer Joe McNicol blew the whistle on the company in 
>a bid to stop receiving its junk e-mails.
>
>Snip... http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/14/1034561097754.html
>
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