just a quick one point to note.

Spammers trawl web pages for mailto: tags.

The site that lists the email address to report spam to is contained in a
mailto: href tag.

What's the bet that the email address on that page receives more spam mail
than legitimate email.

-S

-----Original Message-----
From: Barton, Lindsay [mailto:Lindsay.Barton§noie.gov.au]
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 1:48 PM
To: 'dns§dotau.org'
Subject: RE: [DNS] Chesley's at it again


Ian, the ACA now has an email address (reportingspam§aca.gov.au) on their
spam page (http://www.aca.gov.au/consumer_info/spam/index.htm# ) for
referring spam to them.  Not sure from the original post if the original
notices were electronic or hard copy, though.  Either way, roll on 10 April.

Lindsay Barton
Manager, Online Policy


-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Smith [mailto:smithi§nimnet.asn.au]
Sent: Wednesday, 7 April 2004 1:32
To: Ron Stark
Cc: dns§dotau.org
Subject: Re: [DNS] Chesley's at it again


On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Ron Stark wrote:

 > Today two of my clients have received solicitations from Internet
Registry,
 > offering .com domain names for the pittance of $198 for 2 years.
 > Interestingly, alarm bells were raised in the minds of both clients
because
 > of spelling mistakes in the document, entitled "IMPORTANT NOTICE".
 >
 > Admittedly, in my opinion this latest notice is not deceptive as were his
 > previous outings, so it falls into the realm of valid junk mail
marketing.

Which supposedly becomes illegal in three days, unless he's obtained
consent from recipients to spam them.  Be interesting to find out how
one actually gets to lodge complaints under this new legislation, ie
whether it's fair dinkum.  Last I looked they hadn't worked that out.

Cheers, Ian


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