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EU Rolls out Anti Spam Strategy
An anonymous reader was one of several who noted an article about the latest developments in the
EUs War on Spam. The article is pretty realistic in pointing out that EU Legislation won't be very effective unless Asia and the US do something as well.
The Spam will be no more...it will cease to be!
Well, if all of Europe doesn't want our SPiced hAM products, that just means there's more for us...
;) Then again, I hardly get any LEGITIMATE email to speak of...*frowns* which is pretty sad... *walks off grumbling*
Wait, I don't like SPAM, too salty.
Oh, you mean THAT kind of spam. Well then, I'm all for it, though I just use my @yahoo.com account for my spam collector and periodically empty it out, like every six months maybe.
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Asshat? That conjures up several mental images, none of which are really appealing.......
Where, where, where does this elusive, slippery spam come from? Some mysterious nation with a communist government or an evil dictator? Bomb them. $100 reward to the first person to come up with the leading offender.
There are two kinds of egotists: 1) Those who admit it 2) The rest of us
t only overly pessimistic, but utterly defeatist.
If you are going to buy into the party line that there is no point in the EU fighting spam without North America and Asia follwing step-in-step, you must eventually decide that there is no point fighting spam at all. There will always be somewhere for spammers to run. Because when it comes down to it, even if North America, the EU and Asia all work together to pass anti-spam legislation, there is little chance of Antigua, Cyprus and Sealand following suit.
Really though, every little strike against spam makes real headway. If we can eventually drive all spammers to little off-shore havens, it will that much easier to block them. To be honest however, as a libertarian of sorts I can't help but think that filtering may actually be the better front on which to fight this war.
lysergically yours
Where do analysts come up with numbers like this? I identify an e-mail as spam in about 1.5 seconds (but my Outlook SpamBayes filter does it even faster). If an employee is going to get that distracted by a spam (or 50 of them a day) then they will probably also get easily distracted with other things, like Slashdot ;).
Honk if you're horny.
One already exists ... or haven't you seen the black helicopters?
The ratio of people to cake is too big.
I think that qualifies as the Bad Idea(tm) of the day...
Congrats..
France surrenders.
Because then the schoolchildren of 2103 would have to learn about The Great Vi/Emacs War of 2012, where a group of rogue nations steadfastly clung to their VIM. With Switzerland, of course, using pico and generally keeping well out of things.
Cheers,
Ian
Thats clearly because all the Open Relays and Trojened boxes in CA do not get switched back on until 9am, due to the power shortages and energy conservation. Once all the MCSE's get into work in the morning and start powering everything up...*pow* the SPAM backlog starts flowiing again!
This is only a half-joke.
Mandatory castration of all spammers would be nice.
They would just grow them back with their penis enlargement devices.
I remember learning "the English Language" as a child, and it was amazingly close to what is also known as, uh, "English". I believe the intent of the drafters of the EU Convention on UCE when they said "the Dutch Language" rather than "Dutch" was to stress the "language" part, because there are many things "Dutch", including cheese, hash, beer, and large annoying humans. Many EU conventions have been sabotaged by michieveous Hollanders trying to write their memos in Gouda or Edam instead of prose. Sneaky kaaskoppen.
Also I believe your posting proves conclusively that only one in three people here can actually "read English" at all.
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Unfortunately for LARTing fans, the use of physical violence against natural entities (even Italians) is strictly controlled by the EU Convention on Applied Interentity Violence, section 3, chapter III, articles 5 to 10. LARTing mallets are permitted but only from July 1 to July 14 (so you missed the season), and only if you hold a grade 3 license in applied LARTing.
Further (I know, this is a long post, but these conventions are very detailed), the number 20 is not a valid EU number. This may surprise some people, but in a ruling by the EU Commission on Trade and Industry in 2001 (ref. PB/221/2231) the number 20 was ruled as being "unfair" and "discriminatory". A great effort has been made to move all businesses to 19 or 21, and this has largely been successful. However, the EU is now faced with cheap imports of 20 from Eastern Europe and counterfeit 19's and 21's from China (since there is now a shortage of these numbers). There is a decision pending that will create a superfund to pay for the production of extra 19's and 21's, and some people have even suggested using 22's, but the Italians have vetoed this, saying that 22 is a fascist number. And they should know.
--- Brussels, July 15th, 2003.
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