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Australian Spam Bill Not So Good After All?

Posted by timothy on from the hawaiians-get-more-spam-anyhow dept.

crazney writes "Electronic Frontiers Australia has criticized the anti-spam bill proposed by the Australian government. You can read their full analysis here"

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  1. To Luddite or to not Luddite by lks_aus · · Score: 2, Informative

    So Alston is still the worlds biggest luddite even though he's gone... can we see the new minister change this bill for good or will he usurp Alston's title?

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  2. Re:Apologies, but... by black+mariah · · Score: 1, Informative

    Funny thing is, most American spellings are the older ones. There was a discussion about that not too long ago.

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  3. Re:Austrailian spam? Naw! by Albanach · · Score: 5, Informative
    Use spamassassin. You can either catch them with some bayes training, or even easier, set:

    score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 5

    in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf

    That way everything with an executable will be set as spam. You can then use sieve or other mail scripting language to filter / discard the messages as apropriate.