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Thursday, December 11, 2003
 The new EU Anti-SPAM laws that come into force today are designed to make it illegal to send individuals unwanted email. This, the politicians believe will stop the deluge of junk mail appearing in everyone's email in box overnight.
I have yet to find anyone in the industry who thinks it'll have any affect what so ever, and I'd agree.
Even a cursory analysis of the average user's email in box will reveal that the vast majority of SPAM email comes from far away, Florida; China; via SPAM Bots; Open Relays; Open Proxies; or otherwise mostly untraceable routes. All of this mail is sent by people who have no regard for the law anyway. Any Anti-SPAM methodology based upon tying to identify the sender as proposed by Nick Scales, chief executive of Avecho in an article over on BBCi News, is doomed before it starts.
As Steve Linford, founder of anti-spam organisation The Spamhaus Project said in the same article; "The whole problem with these laws is that they are geared to spammers being honest and respecting laws"..... right then no problems there then ®©
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