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Australia To Fast-Track Anti-Spam Bill
Crypto Gnome writes "News Interactive is reporting that anti-spam legislation is being fast-forwarded by the Australian Federal Government. The proposed law will ban sending commercial emails without the recipient's prior consent and ban the use of email harvesting or list-generating software. Naturally, this will only directly impact local Australian spammers, but they're also hoping this will set a precedent for the International community." Banning list-generation software seems a bit heavy-handed, doesn't it?
"Equally, it is the one that will allow us, in the long term, to get back to the people who are spamming and tap them on the shoulder."
Give them the boot!
I love it when Sen. Alston tries to come off as knowledgable about 'net stuff'. He has so obviously just asked his speechwriters what the latest buzzwords are and how they can be strung together to form a cohesive sentence.
"She's a West Texas girl, just like me" - G.W Bush Iraqis
>> The way to fight spam is to build clever tools
An ICBM comes to mind...
Banning list-generation software seems a bit heavy-handed, doesn't it...
Yep... don't know how our Australian friends are going to get by without grep.
J F Christ, are you living in an alternate universe or have those rose-coloured glasses just fused to your face?
We are pathetic bitches. Yeah, it's a lovely country (as long as you're white, conservative and middle-class), but we have zero power in the world, zero say over our own future, and a "leader" who is hell bent on greasing up and bending over in front of the good old U! S! A! for a free trade agreement that will surely net us the kind of wonderful benefits that most of South America has been lucky enough to experience over the last decade or so.
Dominate? You are kidding yourself. We manufacture jack shit. Despite having the tattered remenants of an exellent education system we have a business community that would have rejected every major technological advance in history as being too risky to invest in. We are going absolutely nowhere except towards our inevitable inclusion into the growing list of US vassal states.
You know they call 'em fingers but I've never seen 'em fing. Oh, there they go.
You can pass all the anti-spam legislation you like, but the vermin will dig even deeper into the woodwork to make it harder to find them.
The only way there's ever going to be any progress in the fight against spam is by making any egregious violation punishable by summary execution.
No, I'm not kidding. If every nation had such a law and actually enforced it things would improve instantly. Kill just ONE spammer and watch it all start to fade.
Of course it'll never happen, but a man can dream, can't he? A man can dream.
My homeowners association agrees unanimously that spam and porn are WRONG. We have passed strong legislation that will stop them dead.
Additionally we have made it illegal for meteors to come within 100 miles of our planet.
You may thank us at your leisure.
...omphaloskepsis often...