Since september 2001 I don't receive any messages on this list. Seems
inprobable that the list is so quiet considering what's going on in
the Eurpean Cmmittee. So this is only a test if I can receive from
this list (or send to it).
Well, you're right, what's going on is pretty grim. I had a long
conversation with the Italian MEP pushing the opt-out legislation
forward, Marco Cappato, and he explained to me that all users could
avoid spam simply by looking at the message Subject before
downloading it. I told him the Subject field wasn't part of the SMTP
protocol so the spam had to be received before seeing the Subject and
he said that's not true because on his Hotmail account he can see the
Subject without downloading the message... He said all ISPs must
provide the same system Hotmail has. (including that ISPs must filter
spam into a separate folder like Hotmail does)