Spam soon to be Illegal in the UK

**markcastle** · 18th September 2003

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communicatio...9116473,00.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3120628.stm

About time too i say. Shame it doesn't apply to businesses too :-(

**Cranky** · 21st September 2003

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39116517,00.htm

**Paul-UKWSD** · 23rd September 2003

It's a step in the right direction, they really need to include businesses.

**Integral** · 10th January 2004

On my personal hotmail account spam has been totally eradicated since these laws were introduced!

**Cranky** · 10th January 2004

I suspect hotmail played a part in that too ... they're continually improving anti-spam measures.

**markcastle** · 10th January 2004

Personally i've not seen any drop in spam since this. Probably more, in fact.

**Cranky** · 10th January 2004

Definately agree with you on that.

**WipeOut** · 12th January 2004

I saw no reduction in spam on my server.. I recently introduced the use of RBL's (4 of them in fact) and I am now rejecting over 1500 spam messages a week at the SMTP server so they are not even getting into the system..

I was getting about 150 massages to my mailbox ( after going through spamassasssin) per day I now get about 15 so RBL's made a huge difference..

later..

**fcolor** · 13th January 2004

Well I receive a lot of spam on my business e-mail accounts. Beleive me I know how to stop spammers... but noboby has enough time to stop them at all. So I hope the rules agains SPAM are going to very harsh no only in US, UK and EU but also Worldwide.

Regards
D.

**movielad** · 14th January 2004

Regardless of law, it's not going to stop the spammers. They're devious little buggers and will continue to use all means necessary to send their crud. IMHO, the only way the level spam is going to be affected is if we start to change the fundamental protocols that make up the mail system.

Regards,

Martyn

**reselluk** · 15th January 2004

It is still a good move, best way to hinder the spammers would be for all the sysadmins to keep there servers up2date with the latest security patches.....

**4dhosting** · 15th January 2004

Or taking Rob's idea you could charge per email sent ... That would certainally stop a lot of them if they got a massive bill at the end of it!

**reselluk** · 15th January 2004

Originally Posted by 4dhosting

Or taking Rob's idea you could charge per email sent ... That would certainally stop a lot of them if they got a massive bill at the end of it!

until they figured out a way to add it to someone elses bill

**philb** · 22nd January 2004

Lets face it most spam arrives from open relays and infected machines in the far east, where, it seems, nobody cares a jot about network security or even 'doing the right thing'.

No amount of UK legislation is likely to stop junk coming from the far east about companies not based in the UK.

I'm about read[y] to throttle the owners of ready made logos, for example. Nearly all the spam I get these days seems to be from their spam peddling affliate scheme users. :|

(edit: corrected minor typo)

**Int'Intuitive** · 26th January 2004

Philb stated

Lets face it most spam arrives from open relays and infected machines in the far east, where, it seems, nobody cares a jot about network security or even 'doing the right thing'.

I would suggest that the *vast* majority of the spam through our servers is from infected *US* based DSL connected machines.

In particular Comcast DSL users seem to be a right bunch of clueless induhviduals

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