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Japan Passes Anti-spam Law
Dr. Tom writes: "Japan Today reports on the new anti-spam law in Japan (which went into effect Thursday). The law's main feature is that it prohibits sending email with nonexistent or spoofed addresses -- a practice common among spammers. It also requires senders to clearly identify UCE as such (so users can install automated blocking tools if they so desire) and provide opt-out functionality. The UCE problem is especially severe in Japan where local phone calls are not free and users must currently pay for downloads of email. Opt-out features are a bad idea, though, because when you opt-out, it just proves your email is valid and the spammers can sell that. But requiring UCE to contain a "Bulk" keyword allows users to have their ISPs block the downloads automatically. The Diet is also considering legislation that would make all UCE illegal." -
Writing Apps for GNOME *and* KDE?
Dr. Tom asks: "I want to write an application that will play nice with both the GNOME and the KDE desktops (and possibly others). Without having developed anything for either, and after glancing through some of the docs, it seems like GNOME apps need to be written with GTK+ while KDE apps need to be written using Qt. Since I don't want to write my app twice, I'd like to know if there are any tools/abstraction layers that I can use to get some desktop functionality without having to worry about which desktop I'm running on. I expect this problem to have relatively wide interest as I notice quite a bit of duplication of effort among the different desktop applications (Knotepad, Gnotepad, Kcalendar, Gcalendar, etc.). It would be nice if some of that code could be shared -- or are desktop apps doomed to be tied to a particular desktop?" I certainly hope not. Applications which work on both frameworks are a necessity if Linux is to become a choice for the general desktop user.