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Posted by: Alan R Parsons (Tuesday 11 May 2004, 10:45 PM)

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What are politicians afraid of? One very simple law would completely cure the problem world wide!
i.e. If a person or company does not specifically request another's SPAM, the SPAMMER commits an offence when distributing Spam, viruses or phishing. The offence of 'DISTRIBUTING UNREQUESTED INFORMATION OF ANY TYPE' commits the SPAMMER, Virus Writer, Phisher etc. (on first offence) to a minimum jail sentence of TEN years hard labour WITHOUT parole and WITHOUT access to any and all forms of I.T. for the duration of said prison term. (This should please the Human Rights vociferous minority as the majority of humans would be protected from Internet effluent and from the S.H.1.T. producing the effluent!).

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