Dutch Fine Spammers, AOL Reports Drop in Spam

teun writes "This morning the Dutch Telecom Authority, responsible for enforcing the anti-spam law in the Netherlands, announced their first two fines for Dutch spammers: 25,000 and 42,500 euros. These fines are based on the anti-spam law that became effective in May this year. Spamvrij.nl is very pleased with these results." gollum123 writes "According to AOL, its subscribers are getting less spam this year. There has been a reduction in both the number of daily email messages to AOL (from 2.1 to 1.6 billion) and in the number of customer complaints about spam." And finally, Saeed al-Sahaf writes "We hear so much about China being the source of spam. But a new study shows China and South Korea as distant second to the United States as the source of spam. Sophos, a leading anti-virus maker has released some findings, which claim that the good old US accounts for almost 42% of spam mails sent out this year, and they chalk it up to lack of security on most desktop computers."

Comments

Nice department.

[lpangelrob2]

from the finger-in-the-dike dept.

Surely you jest.

Perfect filter

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks Opta now i can set my spam filter to mark Dutch mail as good and all English mail as spam.

But how do I convince friendly foreigners to send their messages to me in Dutch only?

the humor of morons

[calyxa]

I'd rather see 'viola' than 'wa-la'...