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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. Re:Heavy handed is about the norm... by h00pla · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ...conservative enough to closely resemble a U.S. administration (except, perhaps, without all the sex scandals)

    Sex scandals? Clinton isn't the president anymore. Now we have George W. Bush and financial and missing WMD quasi scandals.

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  2. Re:Heavy Handed? by Deusy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You and others are showing a complete ignorance of the world.

    Perhaps if you knew what Credit Insurance was, you'd be less obtuse.

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  3. Re:AUSTRALIA = AMERICA JUNIOR by gpinzone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No, that's England, Jr. Canada is America, Jr.