China Signs Anti-Spam Pact 157
Iphtashu Fitz writes "The Chinese government has joined an international anti-spam effort started by the U.S. and UK. Over the weekend China stated that it would join international enforcement efforts against spam by adopting the London Action Plan on Spam Enforcement Collaboration. The London Action Plan was launched after a conference on spam enforcement hosted jointly by the UK Office of Fair Trading and the US Federal Trade Commission in London in October 2004. It was the first international forum to focus exclusively on spam enforcement. China is well known for being one of the biggest origins of spam, with as much as 20% of all junk e-mail originating from within its borders."
Good (Score:3, Interesting)
How long until the US does the same? (Score:4, Interesting)
But what about the hosting of spammed sites? (Score:5, Interesting)
But what about the so called "bullet proof" hosting that you can get in China? A lot of the Viagra spammers have their ordering site in China and no number of complaints filed make any difference. I think that might be a bigger issue than spam originating *from* China.
Taxing commercial email??? (Score:4, Interesting)
Let's find better technological solutions to spam control, and less government-based solutions.
After all, government never get it quite right. Moreover, there is the enforcement issue. It's just not workable. Anyone can purchase a web server in any other country other than the one they live in, so enforcement becomes a joke at best, or worse becomes so draconian that it will hurt hammers as well as spammers (or may not hurt spammers at all, since they can skate the loopholes in the system).
In other news, Hitler signs non-aggression pact (Score:2, Interesting)
Mod this as troll, mod it as flamebait. Apply Godwin's law (which is nothing but a dodge anyway...).
Then read about how Hitler signed a treaty with Joe Stalin saying the Germans wouldn't attack.
The usual suspects are still up. (Score:4, Interesting)
There's no indication on the spammer [spamforum.biz] forums [specialham.com] of any fears about China-based hosting yet.
So, thus far, any crackdown is vaporware.
Re:The usual suspects are still up. (Score:3, Interesting)
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What spam? (Score:3, Interesting)
F China - too little, too late (Score:4, Interesting)
Until these countries can regulate the illegal activity of their systems, they don't deserve to have unfettered access to the Internet IMO... not when the abuse-to-legitimate traffic ratio is 1000000 to 1.
I'd rather see less japanese spam (Score:3, Interesting)
So then I tried to just block *.jp, but Gmail doesn't support blocking by the hidden "Received" header the mail server set, where I could clearly see it came from Japan, despite the "From" field OF COURSE being faked.
Gmail is a great service, but it sure isn't perfect, and blocking on custom mail headers doesn't seem like a too hard work for their developers either, as all the headers are stored like regular text in the mails anyway.