Word: snails
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...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...
Many of the new shows seem to have been created according to very different expectations. Take Channel Umptee-3, which is intended to appeal to children as young as two. The premise is that an ostrich, a snail and a fantasy creature called Holey Moley are operating an underground television station. Old black-and-white film footage is spliced into the show, and static often appears as if a channel were being changed. "This is a show I wish I had as a kid," says Jim George, who created Channel Umptee-3. "I thought, What if there was a show...
Case's own tastes were going digital. He bought a Kaypro, a clunky home computer connected to a snail-paced modem. Even for a hobbyist, the machine was a nightmare--hard to set up, impossible to maintain, boring to use. But the modem was a revelation. As he connected to early online services such as CompuServe and the Source, Case felt the electronic rapture that would one day seduce millions of AOL users: "There was something magical about the notion of sitting in Wichita and talking to the world...