Re: [anti-abuse-wg] how to detect spambots - SPAMTrusted

--On 10 March 2009 20:17:50 +0100 peter h <peter@hk.ipsec.se> wrote:

UCE or spam is illegal in some countries, however legal authorities does not seem willing to hunt and procecute.

Under article 13 of EU DIRECTIVE 2002/58/EC, I think that the sending of UCE is illegal in every member state of the EU, which exemption where the recipient is an existing customer of the organisation sending the email. Even then, the sender has to give an opt out option with every email, and may only market "similar products or services". I don't know anywhere that this is properly enforced, though. -- Ian Eiloart IT Services, University of Sussex x3148