European Union Says No To Spam

Posted by timothy on Monday October 1, 2001 @01:50AM from the will-take-effect-in-20-years dept.

Peter Dyck writes: "CNN reports that the Council of Ministers of the European Union (EU) has agreed on Thursday to pass a new law banning the use of unsolicited e-mail. The resolution also bans the so-called inertia marketing for the promotion of financial services. This means that within the 15 EU member-states companies cannot resort anymore to direct marketing to sell their wares. Marketing is still possible, but the consumers must opt-in for it first." However, this is just one bend in a long and bureaucratic road.

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Time for an European spamming conference? by magi · 2001-10-01 02:35 · Score: 4, Funny

European spamming laws would not be very useful as such, as most world-wide spammers are Americans. But, I have a plan.

We could arrange a "conference for spamming professionals" in Europe and call spammers from all over the world. When they arrive at the conference location, we would arrest them.

I doubt Americans could complain about the immorality of the procedure...

A cool idea, not?