US, UK, And Australia Team Up To Push Spammers To Other Countries
from the don't-let-it-be-our-problem dept
The US, the UK and Australia have now come to some sort of agreement where the three countries will work together to fight spam -- with the expected results about as vague as that statement. They don't really say what they're doing to fight spam, other than "cooperating" with each other because "illegal spam does not respect national boundaries." Indeed, this is true. But because there are nearly 200 countries around the world, it appears spammers still have 197 or so to mess around in.
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It's a start ...
Perhaps other 1st rate countries will join in and then those not in can block email from the 3rd world countries where the spammers are pushed to.
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What about starving babies in Africa?
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what about dorpora?
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Spam Act
All that that is tied up in the individual Trade agreements different countries have. So i think its at a stage where they are working out how to create a cooperative effort, as the act is setup to allow it.
Wether it will be at all successfull is another matter entirely.
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