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Government of Canada's Anti-Spam Initiative

Posted by michael on from the spam-is-cutting-into-hockey-time dept.

FlyingOrca writes "Canada's minister for industry has announced 'a new partnership between government, the private sector and consumers' to combat spam. Light on specifics, but at least they seem to recognize the problem and want to do something about it. Here's the text of the minister's speech. Cue ISO Anti-Spam Proposal Response Form Letter in 5...4...3..."

3 of 14 comments (clear)

  1. strikeout OR and reverse the order by lynx_user_abroad · · Score: 2, Informative
    ...make laws that allow citizens to murder and/or seriously injure known spammers.

    If someone is going to go to the trouble of seriously injuring a spammer, might just as well mandate that they go the final measure, no?

    Any why exactly are we limiting retribution to citizens only?

    Damn. Legislation is as hard as coding sometimes...

    Oh, I almost forgot: ;-)

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    The thing about things we don't know is we often don't know we don't know them.

  2. Re:A great step, by Jerf · · Score: 2, Informative
    I think the author is referring to this spam solution checklist. While funny, it is also true; I've never used that list and wanted to add anything to it, or wished there was an "other" checkbox. It's pretty complete, and to date, nothing passes the checklist...

    ...including, of course, the current email system on a number of counts, but there is something to the old "The Devil you know is better then the one you don't." when dealing with a system involving reputations. At least right now, the fact that just because an email is labelled as coming from "Santa Claus" doesn't mean that it did is preventing people from having their reputations damaged by spam sent out with their name. I was recently "Joe Jobbed" and I was not looking forward to having to explain that my domain wasn't really a spammer's domain... I didn't have to, not to a single person. At least the current mail system is a known quantity.

  3. Minister floated idea of international treaty... by blorg · · Score: 2, Informative

    As the poster mentioned, there wasn't much detail in that speech.

    Computerworld and CNet have (slightly) more information, suggesting that the minister was floating the idea of an international treaty to combat spam.