The BBC's article on the matter:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2 016000/2016848.stm
also points to the sections which could mean the end of SPAM in Europe. Now if only they could do something about the Asian porn pedlars....
Exert from BBC:
Spam stopped
The wide-ranging directive also contains new rules on the sending of unsolicited commercial e-mail and the use of net-based data files or "cookies".
Now firms will only be able to send out e-mail adverts if people agree in advance that they want to receive them. The directive effectively bans the sending of unsolicited e-mail or spam.
Early drafts of the directive worried net advertisers because they threatened to impose the same conditions on the use of internet cookies.
Many websites use these small data files to identify repeat visitors, maintain records of what someone wants to buy while they are at the site and to tailor what visitors see.
Angela Mills-Wade, spokeswoman for the Interactive Advertising Bureau, welcomed the decision by the parliament on cookies.
"They realised it was disproportionate to impose such stiff requirements and it was much better to have something more practical," she said.
Slashdot Mirror
but "gravitationally challenged"
hic puer est stultissimus omnium
The BBC's article on the matter:2 016000/2016848.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_
also points to the sections which could mean the end of SPAM in Europe. Now if only they could do something about the Asian porn pedlars....
Exert from BBC:
Spam stopped
The wide-ranging directive also contains new
rules on the sending of unsolicited commercial
e-mail and the use of net-based data files or "cookies".
Now firms will only be able to send out e-mail
adverts if people agree in advance that they want to receive them. The directive
effectively bans the sending of unsolicited e-mail or spam.
Early drafts of the directive worried net
advertisers because they threatened to impose
the same conditions on the use of internet cookies.
Many websites use these small data files to
identify repeat visitors, maintain records of
what someone wants to buy while they are at the site and to tailor what visitors see.
Angela Mills-Wade, spokeswoman for the
Interactive Advertising Bureau, welcomed the
decision by the parliament on cookies.
"They realised it was disproportionate to impose
such stiff requirements and it was much better to have
something more practical," she said.
Helps if you use a non "American English" dictionary: http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/00035595
....or does this guy bear an uncanny resemblance to a certain Bill G? Nepotism? Of course not.
he obviously studied at the same skool as George W....