ISP Information:
First introduced in the NetWare 4.0 network operating system, this is a system designed to make management of large networks easier for administrators. NDS allows users, groups, files, directories, and other local and remote resources to be displayed in a hierarchical tree structure.
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Novell Directory Services - Experts say businesses and governments around the world will spend $36billion this year to defend their computer systems against electronicspam, named for a brand of processed luncheon meat made from groundpork and ham."Half of the e-mails in your inbox could be messages you never wantedto see," Jean-Jacques Sahel, director of international communicationsat Britain's Department of Trade and Industry, told a technologyseminar in the Chinese capital."China's forthcoming spam law is a welcome development which Iunderstand is close to being finalized," he said.Spam is expected to account for about 67 percent of alle-mails worldwide this year, up several-fold from eight percentin 2001, Sahel said, citing figures from the United Nations.Reading and deleting junk e-mail costs British firms 460 pounds perworker per year in lost productivity, he said.China is the world's third-largest spam producing country,after the United States and South Korea, accounting for 11.62percent of all unwanted messages, software firm Sophos says.Some experts blame China, which cracks down on political dissent andpornography on the Internet, for being a haven for "spammers" due toneglect. Last year, the government blocked dozens of computer serversbelieved to be sending spam.Western governments are pondering laws to enable crackdowns onInternet service providers, or ISPs, who allow spammers to use theirsystems.The term spam originally comes from "spiced ham" made by U.S. cannedfood giant Hormel Foods Corp.*** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material theuse of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyrightowner. This Internet discussion group is making it available withoutprofit to group members who have expressed a prior interest inreceiving the included information in their efforts to advance theunderstanding of literary, educational, political, and economicissues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. Ibelieve that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted materialas provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wishto use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that gobeyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyrightowner, in this instance Reuters News and Yahoo News.For more information go to:http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml
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