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UK Spam Controlled by UK's Advertising Standards Agency

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-i-have-some-of-that dept.

Goth Biker Babe writes "The Advertising Standards Agency in the UK has outlined new rules which govern text advertisements including SMS spam, e-mail spam, and web pop-ups according to the BBC. All unsolicited advertising must now clearly identify itself as advertising. This is as a direct result of the number of complaints about junk texts, e-mail and web pop-ups. All thought the article doesn't mention it a BBC news report this morning stated that unsolicited advertising must now be opt-in rather than opt-out."

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  1. obligatory spam by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ...

    Wife: I don't want any spam!
    Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?
    Wife: That's got spam in it!
    Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?
    Vikings: Spam spam spam spam (crescendo through next few lines)
    Wife: Could you do the egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam then?
    Waitress: Urgghh!
    Wife: What do you mean 'Urgghh'? I don't like spam!
    Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
    Waitress: Shut up!
    Vikings: Lovely spam! Wonderful spam!
    Waitress: Shut up! (Vikings stop) Bloody Vikings! You can't have egg bacon spam and sausage without the spam.
    Wife: (shrieks) I don't like spam!

    etc. etc.

  2. Messenger service by AgentGray · · Score: 1, Redundant

    My favorite new type of SPAM (at least to me) is the SPAM that uses the Microsoft messenger service on my W2K machine.

    Glad I have the firewall on there now...

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  3. Spel^H^H^H^Hsense checker. by DoraLives · · Score: 0, Redundant
    All thought the article doesn't mention it a BBC news report

    Well I thought the article did mention it a BBC news report.

    Back to you Chet.

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  4. Here's the solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If people just used e-mail services such as www.hushmail.com and set their preferences in hushmail to accept encrypted e-mail only, then they wouldn't receive ANY spam whatsoever!

  5. Re:Sounds good, but... by GigsVT · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Actually those are geometries, it's not really correct to call that resolution. Resolution is given in dpi or ppi, dots per inch, or pixels per inch.

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