[anti-abuse-wg] how to detect spambots - SPAMTrusted

--On 10 March 2009 20:17:50 +0100 peter h <peter at hk.ipsec.se> wrote:

>
> UCE or spam is illegal in some countries, however legal authorities does
> not seem willing to hunt and procecute.

Under article 13 of EU DIRECTIVE 2002/58/EC, I think that the sending of 
UCE is illegal in every member state of the EU, which exemption where the 
recipient is an existing customer of the organisation sending the email. 
Even then, the sender has to give an opt out option with every email, and 
may only market "similar products or services".

I don't know anywhere that this is properly enforced, though.

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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
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