A new federal law states that when you annoy someone on the Internet, you must disclose your identity. Here's the relevant language.

"Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."

Last Thursday, President Bush signed into law a prohibition on posting annoying Web messages or sending annoying e-mail messages without disclosing your true identity.


Buried deep in the new law is Sec. 113, an innocuously titled bit called "Preventing Cyberstalking." It rewrites existing telephone harassment law to prohibit anyone from using the Internet "without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy."

To grease the rails for this idea, Sen. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, and the section's other sponsors slipped it into an unrelated, must-pass bill to fund the Department of Justice. The plan: to make it politically infeasible for politicians to oppose the measure.

The tactic worked. The bill cleared the House of Representatives by voice vote, and the Senate unanimously approved it Dec. 16

Got in this morning, checked my e-mails - and not a single spam!

I know its early, but I normally have a load to delete first thing!

dick cheney hospitalised due to shortness of breath.....

woohoo time to break out the champagne....lying, murdering b@!@rd

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Doc.. I am sat here p*ssing myself with laughter...I definitely know someone I amgoing to use this with :-)))

Doc,

Excellent!

yes - excellent - wish I could have to courage to do the same

doc brilliant

Doc you really come up with some crackers! Brilliant, Remind me, what do you do for a living?

Oh shit, I just realised my use of puncuation will now need to decrease dramatically.

:)

Meanwhile, check your home out from a few points of view....

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Sorry to disappoint but the results on my post code are a total pile of crap for me and anyone else within 500m , 2 miles or so away then maybe.

How the fcuk have I got a "High" risk of flooding at the top of a bloody hill ???

:-)

You're Welsh aren't you?

Tiny hill, in a big Wesh valley, near a big lake?

Dil, not high enough in a biblical flood ?