news: April 2003 Archives

The Unix-Hater's Handbook has finally been released free to the public. It talks about Unix's design (or lack thereof), in a detailed manner that many tech communities nowadays consider heretical. In the spirit of fairness and entertainment, it includes Unix creator Dennis Ritchie's blisteringly stinging anti-foreword, as well as usability guru Donald A. Norman's more conciliatory foreword.

In the summer of 2002, CDT embarked on a project to attempt to determine the source of spam. To do so, they set up hundreds of different e-mail addresses, used them for a single purpose, and then waited six months to see what kind of mail those addresses were receiving. The results offer Internet users insights about what online behavior results in the most spam. The results also debunk some of the myths about spam.