Re: test message

[Jan Meijer <]

> 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)
Would you not just want to ... him?  The incompetence is astonishing :(
  Try to suggest everyone should be driving a Volvo, because they're so 
safe.  No way anyone would support that ;).

Does anyone know of any Dutch MEPs supporting the opt-out legislation?

Jan