agsteele Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 The BBC is reporting that a study into spam has blamed it for the production of more than 33bn kilowatt-hours of energy every year, enough to power more than 2.4m homes... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8001749.stm Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farelf Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8001749.stm Ah well, Geek - http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?...ost&p=70795 (Rick's topic) should have no trouble now in convincing his MPs of the veracity of his assertions. All Canadians know the BBC is more reliable than their own sources Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek Posted April 18, 2009 Share Posted April 18, 2009 Ah well, Geek - http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?...ost&p=70795 (Rick's topic) should have no trouble now in convincing his MPs of the veracity of his assertions. All Canadians know the BBC is more reliable than their own sources Agreed 100% Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geek Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Good news! ... I think http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04...egislation.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farelf Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 Good news! ...Certainly is. A really clever thing would be if they could extend:...The government also said last fall it would introduce legislation preventing telecommunications companies from charging fees to customers for receiving unsolicited commercial text messages. ...to e-mail as well, admitting I have no idea how that could be made to stick. Oh well, governments are nearly useless at getting technological stuff 'right' in the first draft, I suppose they'd only mess it up if they tried getting too clever. But there is some real potential in the measures proposed and certainly the AU experience shows a spammer's life can be made much more complicated by such-like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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