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...History's costliest ecoterrorist strike was carried out on behalf of the (a) spotted owl (b) lynx (c) snail darter (d) grizzly bear...
...typical deal you can't refuse, Microsoft throws in a scheduler and a "contact manager," which allows you to store stuff like snail-mail addresses for associates. Both interoperate with the e-mail program and the other smoothly efficient hitmen of the Microsoft "family": Word, which switchbladed Word Perfect in my machine; Excel, which garroted my copy of Lotus 1-2-3, and, of course...
...which unanimously passed the Senate on May 13 and is being considered by the House, might actually aggravate the spam scene. The bill would fine junk mailers who hide their return addresses--that is, the vast majority of spammers. It would require them to list their real snail-mail addresses, telephone numbers and legal names. And supposedly, spammers would be forced to honor requests from folks who want their names taken off mailing lists...
...also said that the Registrar's office has not yet abandoned the traditional mailing of course reports to students, which this year will be sent via "snail mail" by June...
...very forces that compelled the Postal Service (fiscal 1997 revenues: $58.3 billion) to get market religion are threatening to bury it. Electronic mail is zapping first-class deliveries, the system's most profitable service, and could replace 25% of "snail mail" by 2000. At the same time, post office technology continues to lag far behind that of document and parcel movers like Federal Express and United Parcel Service, which can electronically track items through every stage of their journey. UPS alone delivers more than 80% of all packages shipped...