[anti-abuse-wg] how to detect spambots - SPAMTrusted
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Erik Romijn
eromijn at ripe.net
Wed Mar 11 13:00:50 CET 2009
Hi, Ian Eiloart wrote: > 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. The OPTA[1], regulator of electronic communications in The Netherlands, has a website[2] where Dutch private persons can complain about spam received from Dutch sources. Quickly looking back, I see that in the past they have fined an organisation for 510.000 euro [3] and another ruling was confirmed by a court, for a 75.000 euro fine[4]. I can't find an English reference to that though. So something is definitely happening there :) [1] http://www.opta.nl/asp/en/ [2] http://www.spamklacht.nl/ (only Dutch) [3] https://www.spamklacht.nl/asp/nieuws/id/51 [4] https://www.spamklacht.nl/asp/nieuws/id/54 cheers, Erik Romijn
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