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Australian Spam Laws Working?

Posted by michael on from the tar-and-feathers dept.

smash writes "According to AustralianIT, recent spam laws, including fines of up to 1.1 million dollars per day has seen a reduction in local spam production. This has been confirmed by SpamHaus. Surely people in other countries are just as ticked off with the problem - perhaps this is an example to follow?"

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  1. Maybe this will silence the naysayers by fmaxwell · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've been dealing with people who make the unfounded assertion that tough spam laws won't reduce spam. Well, here's strong evidence to the contrary. Australia has passed tough anti-spam laws and now spammers in Australia are running scared and the total amount of spam is down.

  2. Australian Spam by digitalchinky · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Spam created by Australians, for Australians? I've only ever seen one (for a hotel Broome) - It's not hard to pick up the phone and explain to the brain dead spamming company that you've sent off a complaint to the ombudsman, the police, and any other agencies that might have an interest.

    A couple of months following, I received an apology (over the phone) and a cheque ($110 AU) for the hassle of deleting their crap from my inbox.

    The law does work. Slowly.

    I haven't lived in Australia since 2000, so things may have changed since then.

  3. Where is the other 80%? by ptaff · · Score: 2, Interesting


    A couple of days ago an article proposed that 80% of spam comes from Microsoft-infected machines. So at most, 20% could be eliminated by these laws.

    So, should the Aussies really want to prevent spam and so something about it, the way is obvious.
    </ms:Bashing>