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USA, UK, Australia Sign Anti-Spam Memorandum
securitas writes "Computerworld's Todd R. Weiss reports that the USA, Britain and Australia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for six agencies to share resources to fight spam. The MoU lets the government agencies 'share information and work together to detect, investigate and track spammers' as well as 'exchange evidence and coordinate enforcement efforts.' The agencies involved include the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), its counterparts in the UK and Australia, and several other consumer protection agencies. You can get a full list of participating government bodies from the FTC press release, 'Consumer Protection Cops Join Forces to Fight Illegal Spam'. You can also get the spam MoU full text in PDF format from the FTC. More at The Register, vnunet, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald and InfoWorld."
Who wants to be the first on their mailing list?
But did they have to email it to everyone?
What are the kind of penalties these spammers are staring at, if any?
How about being forced to use their own advertised products?
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Oh, tinfoil hat wearers, but only because they are incapable of seeing logic, reason or even the facts in their opponent's arguments, and result to ad hominem attacks and non sequiters.
Or am I getting confused with Republicans?*
* 2 flamewars in one thread!
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I just signed a Increase My IQ While I Slack Off Memorandum.
Tomorrow I'll sign the Give Me Your Money Memorandum.
I'm expecting good things from this! After all, I signed the Memoranda!
Not really much of a punishment, that.
I've been using their products for years, I now have a 14" penis and I've taken so much viagra you could hammer nails with it.
I weigh 6 stone and resemble a walking skeleton (with a 14" long dick) because of all the weight loss supplements.
I'm rolling in money from the "Get rich!" ideas, but I'm spending most of it on paying off various cheap mortgages and loans.
On second thoughts, maybe they should use their own products....
France, Russia, and Germany have so far declined to take part, but were sternly admonished by the Bush administration: "You're either with us, or you're with the spammers."