[anti-abuse-wg] Hold time for abused address space - DNSChanger IP's reallocated

> -----Original Message-----
> From: anti-abuse-wg-bounces at ripe.net [mailto:anti-abuse-wg-
> bounces at ripe.net] On Behalf Of Joe St Sauver
> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 10:47 PM
> To: thor.kottelin at turvasana.com
> Cc: anti-abuse-wg at ripe.net

> Thor commented:
>
> #Email spam is universally defined as unsolicited bulk email. It
> must be
> #extremely rare for someone to join an anti-abuse *working* group
> without
> #knowing basic concepts such as this one.
>
> Actually, the question of "what's spam?" can be surprisingly tricky
> when
> things like national and local legislation gets factored in

Yes. As an example, Finland's principal anti-spam law (the Act on the 
Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications, 516/2004) applies only 
to marketing, not to e.g. political or religious advocacy. In addition, it 
is legally permissible here to spam legal persons that have not specifically 
opted out. Although these provisions do not imply that email messages may 
not be legally rejected by, or on behalf of, the intended recipient, 
national quirks may have to be considered when spam control measures are 
implemented in each nation.

However, this working group and the numerous other organisations that combat 
email abuse internationally need a common definition of what constitutes 
email spam, and such a definition we do have.

-- 
Thor Kottelin
http://www.anta.net/