It is, as you say, not a complete solution, as anyone offshore can do what
he wants with impunity. I would say that even were  a law like this in
effect in the US, it would have no effect whatever with this latest virus.

I think things will not improve much until Microsoft gets hit with a very
hefty liability suit and gets serious about security. Given the
multimillions large corporations pay to combat this stuff, it wouldn't
surprise me to see this happen quite soon.

At 05:42 PM 9/19/2003 -0400, Wirt Atmar wrote:
>Paul writes:
>
> >  It still upsets me that these have to be downloaded to my machine to be
> >  processed, but until our network admin puts in a solution, this has cut
> >  my wasted time dramatically.
>
>If that's so, and I'm sure that it is, and if you're at least as irritated as
>I am, then you're bound to be enthused by the action the British imposed
>today. It's not a complete solution by any means, but it's certainly a start:
>
>=======================================
>
>Updated: 01:45 PM EDT
>Spammers Now Need Permission in Britain
>By BETH GARDINER, AP
>
>LONDON (Sept. 19) - Spammers beware. Britain has announced that those sending
>unsolicited e-mail must get recipients' agreement in advance. Violators will
>be subject to fines of 5,000 pounds (US$8,000) or more and possible lawsuits
>from those they've targeted.

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