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It's not clear to this observer how local legal action can begin to
tackle this issue. <br><br>
Already in 2002, Europe paid €2.25 Billion in lost productivity due to
spam, according to Erkki Liikanen then European Commissioner for IT. The
EU is trying to do something about it, but most spam comes from outside
its borders (back then, the US and China were the main sources). What
incentive do net supplier regimes have to act against spam?<br><br>
Corresponding to the two perspectives you identify, I see two scenarios:
collective, hopefully global and voluntarily coordinated action; or
Draconian unilateral responses (opting out by specific communities,
censorship of traffic from rogue domains', strict ISP liability, etc.)
that could radically cut the connectivity and utility of the Internet.
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I don't think the 'corner solutions' (global government or a lasez-faire
trip further into the swamp) are sustainable.<br><br>
Cheers,<br><br>
J.<br><br>
</font>At 15:09 31/01/2005, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Just a small observation from
the above discussion: those who would<br>
put spam on the list of priorities have very different ideas of its<br>
purpose. One tendency is „to protect the world from spam" (because
of<br>
the costs, etc.), the other tendency is „to protect the world from<br>
protection from spam" (to ensure that no legitimate mail is
filtered,<br>
etc.).<br><br>
I am not quite sure that spam should be included at all but if yes,<br>
then in the second alternative (at least, for raising awareness and<br>
the like). The first one is really not much different from other<br>
issues that are to be solved at the local level (starting from legal<br>
definition of spam and so on).<br><br>
Yulia<br>
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