Australia's Largest ISP Redefines Spam

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 2, 2003 @05:20PM from the don't-tell-all-your-friends dept.

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."

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Re:Oh telstra you dorks by rebeka+thomas · 2003-12-02 18:14 · Score: 0, Troll

1. Teach them to email online. Offline mailing is a false efficiency, all you're doing is delaying the sending.

2. Why are they using bigpond anyway? hundreds of other ISPs are cheaper.

3. 30 emails? perhaps they should cut down. If they only mail 19 at a time then they'll be under the radar.

I don't see what the fuss is about.

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Re:JESUS! RTFA! by dilby · 2003-12-02 23:57 · Score: 0, Troll

Hi. Look Jesus called and apologised he didn't have time to RTFA, he's been busy - 'preparing for Christmas and all'.

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