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Australian Considers Outlawing Spam
An anonymous reader writes "The Sydney Morning Herald has an article on spam down under. I guess it goes to show that if something that bothers us also bothers enough politicians then something may be done. Interestingly, the article discusses international co-operation wrt spam. Good thing too. With only 2% of the global economy, it'll take more than Australia to beat the spam problem. Perhaps someone should send a 'group letter' to all relevant politicians in various countries to start co-operating? :)" Update: 04/16 11:56 GMT by H : There's another article on the subject as well, running in The Australian.
Most spam I get is of the 'down, under' category :-). Incidentally, is hotmail banned Down Under? How else can they outlaw spam?
If you keep throwing chairs, one day you'll break windows....
Just one single citizen is going to outlaw SPAM? Perhaps tomorrow we'll see a story about a Cameroonian deciding to jaywalk?
Bruno: [looking at spam] Ooh! Ah, that's it. I'm going to report this to me member of parliament.
[yells out window] Hey, Gus! I got something to report to you. [Gus tends his swine]
Gus: That's a bloody outrage, it is! I want to take this all the way to the Prime Minister.
[they go down to a lake] Hey! Mr. Prime Minister! Andy!
Andy: [floating naked on an inner tube with a beer] Eh, mates! What's the good word?
You're a bastard. Your mother should have aborted you with a coat hanger and then hit you and your stinky fetus with a sledgehammer.
.......Sounds like a hygiene problem....
I lost my concept of community when my community lost all concept of me.
Unfortunately, Senator Alston hopes to rid Australia of spam by disconnecting it from the Internet...well, judging by his past "improvements"....
...and he grinned, like a fox eating shit out of a wire brush.
Considering that Russia and China have adopted both the "ban it" methodology and rely on kangaroo courts, they might get along with the Australians just fine.
Laws are for people with no friends.
We my only have 0.3% of the global population, and 2.6% of the worlds internet users , but apparantly we recieve 16% of the worlds spam. http://www.caube.org.au/australia.htm
Now what do you propose to do with the 95% of spam that originates from outside of the U.S.?
The same thing I plan to do about the bogeyman and other fictitious creatures.
Maybe, but he is a complete arsehole :-)