China outlaws Outlook

vnunet.com has an article running right now about China's new law regarding email servers. An interesting and scary looking into the tight hand China uses to control it's people and "it's internet".

"China has introduced regulations that make it illegal to run an email server without a licence. The new rules, which came into force two weeks ago, mean that most companies running their own email servers in China are now breaking the law."

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For the VeriSign Site Seal users

According to Tim Callan at Verisign:

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