Australia To Fast-Track Anti-Spam Bill

Posted by timothy on Monday September 8, 2003 @07:03PM 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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Re:It's only spam by TheOldFart · 2003-09-08 19:24 · Score: 4, Funny

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

An ICBM comes to mind...
Bye, bye grep... by flakac · 2003-09-08 19:55 · 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.