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Australia's Largest ISP Redefines Spam
cpudney writes "According to this article in NEWS.com.au, Telstra BigPond, Australia's largest ISP will monitor its customers' e-mails and suspend the accounts of users suspected of sending spam, viruses or denial-of-service attacks. Under changes to its Acceptable Use Policy, BigPond will investigate cable and ADSL Internet customers sending more than 20 e-mails in a 10-minute period, and BigPond management "may suspend the (user's) account while the customer is contacted" if they are suspected of sending spam. Previously, BigPond's definition of spam was held to be 400 messages sent over a 15-minute period and now it's changed to 20 e-mails over 10 minutes. Internet Society of Australia president Tony Hill said BigPond's new definition of spam was very restrictive and he was concerned the limit had been set too low for legitimate e-mail users."
Ok, just send out a little note to my students that I'm gonna be gone on monday and...
cc: student1@asdf.edu; student2@asdf.edu; studERROR ACCOUNT SUSPENDED
Well then... guess they'll just have to figure that one out on their own.
After I have received the wisdom of good teaching, I will untiringly teach all people. - The Teachings of Buddha
Why was this moderated -1, Flamebait? That's a bit OTT. Too bad their isn't an option +0, Naive. ;)
I have a PDA and when I come home and it syncs up, it sends all the emails I've written during the day. Am I a prime target now?
This is my digital signature. 10011011001
People writing mails offline, people sending out christmas letters, people that send out small newsletters (there are 1000's of them!) all will be considered spammers under this policy. This policy is not unreasonable, it's downright tyrannical!