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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. What by Timesprout · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean training kangaroos to box the crap out of spammers is not a good idea !!!

    Whats that Skippy ? You threw another spammer down the mine shaft. Good roo.

    --
    Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
    What truth?
    There is no dupe
  2. Alcohol, Tobacco, and SPAM? by cliffy2000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Spam laws are kind of like the US gun control laws. They're all fine and dandy, but until the existing laws are enforced, they really mean nothing. And the greater restrictions probably just annoy law-abiding citizens.
    (Now, I'm all in favor of gun control. Just not more legislation until the ATF actually does something.)

  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.