From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 11 9: 7:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7770414EC6 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 09:07:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by lariat.lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA22703; Tue, 11 May 1999 10:06:58 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.2.0.37.19990511100245.04683bd0@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.37 (Beta) Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:03:29 -0600 To: Greg Lehey , FreeBSD Chat From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Europe says yes to spam In-Reply-To: <19990511181344.R65965@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sounds bogus to me. It'd be in direct conflict with the EU regulations which prevent the collection and dissemination of personal information. --Brett Glass At 06:13 PM 5/11/99 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message