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Australia To Fast-Track Anti-Spam Bill

Posted by timothy on from the overbroad-or-overdue dept.

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?

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  1. Simpsons by CGP314 · · Score: 3, Funny

    "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!

  2. Re:It's only spam by TheOldFart · · Score: 4, Funny

    >> The way to fight spam is to build clever tools

    An ICBM comes to mind...

  3. List Generation Test by Ignis+Flatus · · Score: 3, Funny
    1. If your browser
    2. can display
    3. this list,
    4. then you will
    5. be breaking
    6. the law
    7. in Australia.
  4. Bye, bye grep... by flakac · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.