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EU Rolls out Anti Spam Strategy

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the hundred-pieces-of-spam-in-my-box dept.

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.

2 of 220 comments (clear)

  1. EU Convention on Unsolicited Email by heironymouscoward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Section 3, Chapter II:

    Article 1: All unsolicted electronic communications (UCE) intended for commercial purposes, including but not exclusively for the sale of electronic products, personal services, errection-producing drugs, digital images of a pronographic nature, and percentage offers of the fortunes of deceased African dictators, shall follow the code of conduct established in Article 2.

    Article 2: all business email sent to and from correspondents in the member states of the EU shall be provided in all four (4) of the following languages: English, French, German, and Italian, plus any two (2) of the following languages: Finnish, Swedish, Irish, Spanish, Portuguese. The Dutch language may only be used as an encryption device for confidential communications.

    Article 3 - Sanctions. The minimum sanction for any natural entity sending emails in an illegal combination of languages shall be no less than twenty years of service in the customer service department of the European Union. ....

    I don't see the problem, so long as all EU countries implement this convention fully. That, and castrating spammers should take care of things.

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  2. Asia is not a problem, if by Baki · · Score: 3, Informative

    you just block all mail coming from Asia.

    90% of spam I received came from Asia (korea, china etc) until I added the following to my postfix access config file:

    202 554 All sites from Asia-Pacific NIC blocked due to excessive SPAM
    203 554 All sites from Asia-Pacific NIC blocked due to excessive SPAM
    210 554 All sites from Asia-Pacific NIC blocked due to excessive SPAM
    211 554 All sites from Asia-Pacific NIC blocked due to excessive SPAM
    218 554 All sites from Asia-Pacific NIC blocked due to excessive SPAM
    219 554 All sites from Asia-Pacific NIC blocked due to excessive SPAM
    220 554 All sites from Asia-Pacific NIC blocked due to excessive SPAM
    221 554 All sites from Asia-Pacific NIC blocked due to excessive SPAM
    61 554 All sites from Asia-Pacific NIC blocked due to excessive SPAM