Hi everyone! I don't understand how this can work at all. First of all, we all know the vast majority of spam is bulk emails offering viagra, pharmaceuticals and all that. Spam sent by a company to promote their services is an entirely different animal. I don't know how the law can recognize it as spam even, if say my company has an e-mail address on a webpage and another company send me an e-mail from their webhost/isp's mail server, or their own mail server (not some zombie computers) offering office cleaning services which I don't want...to me it's spam, but to the law - should it really be? We don't want to get to the point where new business contacts from legitimate companies become suspicious, blocked or illegal.
Plus I just don't see how such a law can be enforced, if I pay a spammer to advertise my company for instance then it won't go to any IP registered to my company and cannot be traced back to me. So what is the solution, you ask? My personal opinion, the anti-spam laws should be targeted at ISPs and webhosts as it would much easier to implement & control! Alex. -----Original Message----- From: Melvin [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 4:34 AM To: For Users of ASSP Subject: Re: [Assp-user] Dutch ban all spam e-mails Jeroen van Aart wrote: > I thought some of you might be interested in this. > > It must be noted that since the Dutch banned spam to private individuals > the amount of Dutch spam, or spam from Dutch sources, declined > considerably. Of course this will become more effectived the more > countries do a similar thing... > While I certainly applaud the sentiment, I can't say that the impact of the U.S. doing what appears to be roughly the same thing has any appreciable impact on the problem. I'm sure that there are substantial differences in the laws, but then again perhaps there are just more law abiding Dutch spammers or fewer Dutch criminals to ignore it. :) Maybe a few of our legislators should take a few lessons? Whatever works to any extent is better than the way it is now I suppose. And hopefully the Google translator isn't going to mangle this too badly. Please forgive any miscue in translation, it was the best I could do on the spur of the moment. 'Keep up the good work' just refused to translate. :) Houd de goede dingen komen Melvin ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
