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Pete Stephenson | 7 Sep 03:05
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Italy Goes Opt-in, Law States Senders of Unsolicited Bulk Email Now Face Jail

According to a recent posting on Spamhaus.org[1][2], spamming is now 
a crime in Italy. According to the official release[3], "those who 
send email advertisements without the consent of the address owners 
will go to jail".

The rest of Europe will be implementing the same EU directive by 31 
October of this year; Italy decided to implement it a little bit 
early. Now, if only the rest of the world could follow suit.

See the URL's below for more information.

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http://www.spamhaus.org/index.lasso?-database=sbl_news&-layout=detail&-response=newsstory.lasso&-recordID=19&-search
[2] http://tinyurl.com/mhvb if [1] wraps.
[3] http://www.garanteprivacy.it/garante/doc.jsp?ID=272444

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Pete Stephenson | 18 Sep 22:36
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VeriSign's SiteFinder & Britain Bungles Anti-spam Law

SpamCop Digest
18 September 2003

* VeriSign's Sitefinder
* Britian Bungles Anti-spam Law
* Request from the author.

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* VeriSign's SiteFinder
http://sitefinder.verisign.com/index.jsp

VeriSign Naming and Directory Services, the company responsible for 
maintaining the root DNS registry and provisioning the .com and .net 
domain names, has decided that merely running the registry (and 
owning Network Solutions, a registrar of domain names) was no longer 
enough. Instead, they decided that since they maintain the root DNS 
system, they could direct *.com and *.net to their own system called 
SiteFinder (the URL of which is included above).

This means that when a user enters a domain name that does not exist, 
instead of getting an error message that says "Error: Host Not Found" 
(which might not mean much for the average user, but at least they 
know something's wrong), they will be directed to VeriSign's website. 
Similarly, if someone attempts to send mail to a nonexistent domain, 
it will be directed to VeriSign's mailserver (which currently rejects 
all messages, though logs and statistics are likely to be kept...and 
what's to prevent them from collecting email addresses?).

Other domain registrars must register domains individually (and pay
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