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Has Osama Bin Laden been captured? Not yet. But you will be, if you're dumb enough to click on the link in the message. Ted Richardson shares his experience tracking down the culprit... with a little help from Alex Eckelberry, Paul Laudanski, Chris Gunn and Patrick Jordan. Gee. Sometimes it really does take a village.

Last November, I told you how the classified ad kings of craigslist banned Hotmail and Yahoo/BTinternet from subscriptions. They surmised that Hotmail was actively blocking craigslisters, while Yahoo/BTinternet was deferring incoming email due to underpowered mailservers. To craigslist admins, the ...

Controversial freedom of speech advocate Dave Hayes says he's abandoning net-abuse usenet sites because he's tired of tilting at windmills. On his way out the door, he labels Spamhaus and SPEWS as "terrorists," and ISPs who are trying to keep customers happy by filtering unwanted mail as "anti-spam zealots."

Disgruntled Yahoo! advertisers who were hoping for just compensation from the Pay-Per-Click fraud settlement may as well get over it. Here's the short version: Yahoo! names an insider to watch ad traffic, invites 3 advertisers a year to chat, promises to make an effort to come up with industry-wide standards, extends its fraud claim period, and gives you an advertising credit... if you can prove you were harmed. I almost forgot the best part. Your class action attorneys walk away with nearly five million bucks. D'oh!

Robert Scoble says it all boils down to fonts. Windows has great fonts... Mac has blurry fonts... and Linux? Fuhgetaboutit. Only geeks can stand it. I dunno. I'm inclined to believe that Windows owes more credit for success to zillion dollar ...