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Story: United Nations calls for ISPs to police spammers

Posted by: Andrew Meredith (Friday 10 March 2006, 1:38 PM)

I am never a big fan of populist knee-jerk regulation, it usually misses the point entirely and ends up hurting the innocent and making no difference to the guilty. This might actually be a good idea though. Many in the UK assume that every ISP has a decent Acceptable Use Policy that is policed and enforced. This is of course not true .. even within the UK!

If what is actually being proposed here, is a global AUP with teeth, it won't solve the problem, but it will help a great deal. If when ISPs don't obey the global AUP, they face grave consequences to their businesses, they might think twice about harbouring spammers.