UK and Italy outlaw spam! Yehaaa!

Uk outlaws spam

I'd like to see some successful prosecutions.

See, America. They're smarter than us.

Yeah, it's probably not gonna make the problems dissapear with a stroke of magic, but you must agree that it is an enormous step in the right direction.

Between this and the RIAA, we'll see which crusade gives up and goes home first.

ravage said:

See, America. They're smarter than us.

Thank you, Captain Obvious...I think...

Hehehe, the Brits are even prosecuting people who don'g make their sites easy for disabled people to read.

i dout a law like that would even get into the senate in the US. we'll see a dancing monkey made entirly of boobs before we see that

Aliotroph? said:

Hehehe, the Brits are even prosecuting people who don'g make their sites easy for disabled people to read.

if this were EVER to really happen, it could mean the end of paperrad.org!!!!!!

But it is happening. For a site like that, there would have to be descriptive labels for all the images and probably an indication that it's all about graphics so blind folks don't bother with it.

They wouldn't let it destroy the content of the net.

pregnant with worms said:

if this were EVER to really happen, it could mean the end of paperrad.org!!!!!!

Damn. I'm seriously surprised there were no imbeded midis/wavs on that site.

I doubt this would work, seeing as most spammers are from America afaik. Well ok, I read there somewhere and don't know how true it is.

Sephiroth said:

we'll see a dancing monkey made entirly of boobs before we see that

But I thought George Dubya Bush already existed?

I saw on tv this morning that spam is getting outlawed here, but only if it originates from europe. Sorta weak considering that the few hundred main spammers are american.

Actualy, I think most spammers have their servers in CHina or Russia or something like that. Or maybe thats hackers I'm thinking of...

Python_Junkie said:

Thank you, Captain Obvious...I think...

That's Captian Oblivious to you. :P

The anti-spam group, Spamhaus, has criticised the law for excluding work addresses.

... and for not cuddling them on request.

When will American politicians get their heads out of their asses and write up a similar law?

Probably when enough of them get all of their email accounts saturated with spam.

Fools! If you outlaw spam, then only outlaws will spam!