Re: test message

[Steve Linford <]

From Rudi van Houten, received 13/11/01, 7:20 pm +0100 (GMT):
>  Since september 2001 I don't receive any messages on this list. Seems
>  inprobable that the list is so quiet considering what's going on in
>  the Eurpean Cmmittee. So this is only a test if I can receive from
>  this list (or send to it).
Well, you're right, what's going on is pretty grim. I had a long 
conversation with the Italian MEP pushing the opt-out legislation 
forward, Marco Cappato, and he explained to me that all users could 
avoid spam simply by looking at the message Subject before 
downloading it. I told him the Subject field wasn't part of the SMTP 
protocol so the spam had to be received before seeing the Subject and 
he said that's not true because on his Hotmail account he can see the 
Subject without downloading the message... He said all ISPs must 
provide the same system Hotmail has. (including that ISPs must filter 
spam into a separate folder like Hotmail does)

I also spoke (by email) to the British MEP responsible for pushing 
the UK side of the opt-out legislation - Michael Cashman MEP. He said 
that because so much spam was coming into the UK from the US, spam 
must be allowed in the UK or else our spammers would be at a 
commercial disadvantage...

Bah.

--
  Steve Linford
  The Spamhaus Project
  http://www.spamhaus.org