19 days until M-Day.

The new Internet connection for Userland certainly seems to be faster! I'm glad they moved then. Used to take maybe 15-30 seconds just to pull up the ETP forms.

Hear that, Britain?

It added: ``The public would not be well served by compelling an (internet service provider) to examine and screen millions of e-mail communications, on pain of liability for defamation.''

``Prodigy was not a publisher of the e-mail transmitted through its system by a third party,'' the state court ruled unanimously. ``We are unwilling to deny Prodigy the common-law qualified privilege accorded to telephone and telegraph companies.

And some great news: Supreme Court lets stand decision freeing Internet providers from liability for e-mail content: It is so cool to see the Supreme Court apparently giving some weight to the opinion of the New York State Court, which said (in part):

The Eroded Self: "In cyberspace, there is no real wall between public and private. And the version of you being constructed out there - from bits and pieces of stray data - is probably not who you think you are."

(I'm sure they are shaking in their knickers.)

I declare Britain a Internet-Repressive Regime.

"'The arrival of this spy centre means that Big Brother is finally here,' said Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat MP for Lewes."