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Submission + - BBC backtracks on Linux audience figures

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on Monday November 05, 2007 @03:56PM

6031769 writes: "After recently claiming that only 400 to 600 Linux users visit the BBC website, the BBC's Ashley Highfield has now admitted that they got their numbers wrong. The new estimate is between 36,600 and 97,600 according to his blog post. He stops short of describing how Auntie arrives at these two widely different sets of numbers and how their initial estimate is two orders of magnitude out."

Submission + - Spamhaus to ignore $11m judgement

Submitted by 6031769 on Friday September 15, 2006 @08:08AM

6031769 writes: As reported on CNet, Spamhaus are choosing to ignore a judgement of $11m against them in an uncontested trial in an Illinois court. According to Spamhaus, the judgement has no impact upon them, since they are a British organisation. FTA:
"Default judgments obtained in US county, state or federal courts have no validity in the UK and can not be enforced under the British legal system," Spamhaus said on its Web site. "As spamming is illegal in the UK, an Illinois court ordering a British organization to stop blocking incoming Illinois spam in Britain goes contrary to UK law which orders all spammers to cease sending spam in the first place."

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