From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 11 1:43:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD45215940 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 01:43:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA23317 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 18:13:45 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id SAA70316 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 11 May 1999 18:13:44 +0930 (CST) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:13:44 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: FreeBSD Chat Subject: Europe says yes to spam Message-ID: <19990511181344.R65965@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Just saw this on the aussie-isp list. Greg ----- Forwarded message from Terence ----- > Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 14:21:34 +1000 (EST) > To: aussie-isp@aussie.net > Precedence: bulk > Reply-To: aussie-isp@aussie.net > > > [More idiot politicians...] > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 21:29:33 +1000 (EST) > From: David Bromage > To: cauce-aus@corvu.com > Subject: Europe says yes to spam > > The European Parliament has voted to legalise spam. The European Internet > Service Providers Association (EuroISPA) campaigned against the idea, a UK > MEP made a passionate speech to ban junk email and nobody spoke in favour of > it. Despite this, it was passed 266 votes to 137. A clause to ban the > harvesting of email addresses from newsgroups and web sites was removed > before the bill was passed. > > Net users are required to register with national opt-out lists if they do > not wish to receive junk email. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message