An international action plan to communicate and cooperate on enforcement action to tackle spam has been agreed by 19 bodies from 15 countries attending the workshop.
The meeting took place in London: full details and list of signatories here.
While welcome, it does read like snow in hell… the two examples of ’success’ quoted are small & old - spam is a growing daily problem. The safety tips are basic self-defence for anybody with a networked computer.
Shouldn’t this be the meeting where ‘they’ cry out
“for heavens sake people, don’t encourage spammers - you only make things worse…. get filters, firewalls, anti virus, and most of all, don’t open this stuff!”
Spam is costing the networked world a fortune. Where are the tv commercials and (heavens to betsy) the tabloid coverage of the war on evil spammers?
In the meantime, even this meeting noted that “90 per cent of spam in a user’s inbox is traceable to a hardcore element of 200 organisations, with those in the US being the clear leader.”
er, what’s so hard about finding and shutting down those 200 souls?
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