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Everyone asks "is xyz a crime?". I thought this should be a technical forum. I mean, if you're unsure if something is right to do, why not do something else?

Hmmm... spam or not, email or not, but to be honest, I would myself rather choose a service provider that doesn't keep logs to give them out on demand. It's a matter of customer privacy. But spam tends to follow quite specific patterns, which can be faced with probabilistic algorithms. These algorit...

Studying lisp can hardly be a mistake if you have the time to. It has its own type of elegance and can teach quite a bit of abstract problem solving technique.

but don't you know that http://wiki.infogroep.be/GodWroteInLisp? ~_^

and I thought the state-of-the-art way of turning the momentum of a spammer against him would be using honeypots...

I haven't been much into Windoze lately, but I'd suppose you could tweak http://www.honeynet.org/tools/sebek/ to fit your needs.

?? What about My Computer -> Propertie -> Automitc Updates and then choose what you want? I set it up in the Properties only to download updates, but not to install them automatically. It would still install them on shutdown. In GPEDIT.MSC however, I could even disable the annoying reboot notificat...

SERVICES.MSC allowed only to disable the whole Windows Update service for me. I still want to install the updates manually if I regard them as useful. However, I found the relevant settings under GPEDIT.MSC -> "Computer Configuration" -> "Administrative Templates" -> "Window...

How do I keep a PC running Windows XP with Service Pack 2 from automatically installing downloaded updates on shutdown?

It doesn't seem to get transmitted in the browser headers, but somehow it seems to be possible to find out the requesting client's time zone from a server-side program. How could it be done?