In a fury of emails flying around the net, panic set in that the Internet was going black. The emails implied that the main domain name system would collapse on July 4th. Luckily, all rumors were a false alarm. [...] Continue reading →

Netcom claims it had to block incoming email from Hotmail, a free email service, due to significant spam from a Hotmail email address. The majority of the spam was head to various AOL email addresses, but AOL rejected the messages as spam, causing them to pile up on Netcom’s servers, threatening to take them down. [...] Continue reading →

The debate over who owns information online is vague with a struggle between copyright holders and the public's rights to "fair use" of materials. The Clinton administration announced that both need to be balanced and that "fair use" needs to be preserved. [...] Continue reading →