[Air-l] Re: Denial of Service attack against al Jazeera

[Rune Dalgaard]

Thomas, and others.

I just saw that Al Jazeera has now decided to postpone its english-version
website due to spam from "US e-mailers" (whoever that is supposed to cover).

See below.

Best,
Rune


Latest News

Spam keeps Al-Jazeera website down
27/03/2003 18:28 - (SA)

Launch of English website delayed until mid-April

Doha - Waves of spam kept Al-Jazeera's website down for a third day on
Thursday and officials at the satellite channel said it was coming from US
e- mailers apparently angry over its coverage of the Iraqi war.

The Qatar-based network, which has broadcast graphic footage of dead US and
British soldiers, also said it would now have to delay the introduction of
an English-language site for several weeks due to the barrage of spam, or
junk electronic mail.

"English.aljazeera.net will not be launched until mid-April," online
editor-in-chief Abdel Aziz Al-Mahmud told AFP.

source: cursor
http://www.cursor.org/aljazeera.htm
http://www.cursor.org/about/


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Rune Dalgaard  |  MA, Ph.D. Candidate  |
Information and Media Studies  |  Aarhus University  |  Denmark
runed at imv.au.dk  |  http://www.imv.au.dk/medarbejdere/runed