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."

Comments

Get a Yahoo Account....

[billstewart]

There are lots of free web-based email servers out there, like yahoo.com. Get an account there to send mail from.

Re:Market forces are the right approach

[Carmody]

We don't need the Chinese government to pass some law to make this happen - the free market *can* force them to do so

Just click your heels together three times and say, "There's no force like the free market... there's no force like the free market... there's no force like the free market..." And then all of our problems will go away and we will live in a Utopia just as good as Karl Marx's, but better because there are no unrealistic communists in it.