At 09:43 22/01/2002, Matthew Poole wrote:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=787311
" Residential internet users who suffer email delays, network outages or slow connection speeds will gain the right of redress against service providers under a proposed law change."
This law will hold ISPs liable for delays in e-mail delivery even when the delays are associated with a remote network over which the ISP has no control. I believe that at this point we start talking of concerted information campaigns aimed at those wonderful employees of ours, to get this particular section of the law ammended or removed.
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