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)
Would you not just want to ... him? The incompetence is astonishing :(
Try to suggest everyone should be driving a Volvo, because they're so
safe. No way anyone would support that ;).
Does anyone know of any Dutch MEPs supporting the opt-out legislation?
Somebody posted the list of all the MEPs supporting opt-out,
including their email addresses, to the SPAM-L list. It doesn't say
which countries they represent but here's a copy anyway: