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China Wants Out of Spam Blocks
SomeoneYouDontKnow writes: "Apparently, China is feeling the effects of the e-mail blocks Western ISPs are placing on Asian mail to prevent spam, as previously reported here. A group of Chinese legislators is calling for the blocks to be lifted because they're making it difficult for them to communicate via e-mail, and a signed article in The People's Daily is calling on China to ban spam. Maybe now some of the lazy admins of these spam-spewing mail servers will clean up their acts."
Hopefully, the Chinese government will take the kind of firm action against spammers, that other governments hesitate on for misunderstood humanitarian reasons ("humanitarian" concerns should not apply to non-humans, such as spammers).
And feel free to moderate me down as flamebait, but I have seen to many virtual communities be destroyed because of spam for this to be anything but a heart-felt opinion.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the USA is too ignorant to distinguish between Chinese academics and the Chinese government.
What's that you say? You personally don't represent the entire USA? Well, shucks, maybe that's true for people in other countries too.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
This is the biggest problem that I have with this law.
Free world wants spam gone.
Free world asks China to make spamming illegal.
China makes spamming illegal to retain favored status with the Free World.
Some poor 20 year old with a family gets 10 years in prison or shot in the back of the fucking head trying to make a few extra dollars, all because we were too lazy and self-centered to hit the delete key or set up procmail properly.
Hey Taco! Looks like you're using the "infinite monkeys and typewriters" scheme to generate Ask Slashdots again...