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Anonymous Coward writes "It looks like a wholesale ISP who recently went out of business, Ziplink, was working on a solution to the problem of outbound spam. UnixReview has the article here. More information is available on the Ziplink web site here. It looks like they filed a patent on it too." The last paragraph of the article notes the free speech problems inherent in any system designed to limit who can communicate with whom.

Anonymous Coward writes "It looks like a wholesale ISP who recently went out of business, Ziplink, was working on a solution to the problem of outbound spam. UnixReview has the article here. More information is available on the Ziplink web site here. It looks like they filed a patent on it too." The last paragraph of the article notes the free speech problems inherent in any system designed to limit who can communicate with whom.

Cymen Vig wrote in to tell us that Buzz Builder is having a couple of guys try to run Linux to prove that it's a valid alternative to MS for normal user tasks like doc sharing, networking etc. Hope they are successful. I know that millions of users out there have already discovered that Linux is a valid alternative, nice to have a few more try it, and get some serious publicity doing it.