Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:03:11 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Europe says yes to spam Message-ID: <3737F24F.70BE6FCA@uk.radan.com> References: <19990511181344.R65965@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote:
>
> Just saw this on the aussie-isp list.
>
> Greg
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Terence <terry@tdce.com.au> -----
>
> > 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 <dbromage@omni.com.au>
> > 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.
> >
:-(. Mind you, about 90% of the spam I receive comes from the USA so
I'm not sure what good it would have done had they voted the other
way. Many (most?) of this junk e-mail includes a statement that under
some Bill or other it is not classed as spam. Obviously the US
legislators use a different definition of spam/junk e-mail to those of
us in the real world.
There is also another law being proposed by the EU which would make
the local caching of Web pages by ISP's effectively illegal (something
related to copyright IIRC).
> > Net users are required to register with national opt-out lists if they do
> > not wish to receive junk email.
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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