[AUUG-Talk]: ACA says that Anti-spam laws are working...

[Con Zymaris]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 11:37:52AM +1000, David Purdue wrote:
> According to The Age 
> (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/22/1090464779848.html) the 
> Australian Communications Authority says that the new Anti-Spam laws 
> have dramatically reduced the amount of spam we are all recevining.
> 
> Has anyone noticed?

I think that the ACA has had someone install SpamAssassin, and yeah, look, 
suddenly they are witnessing a reduction in spam to ACA mail users ;-)

No. No reduction. 

I can't ever recall getting spam from any organisation which would be
adversely affected by the local anti-spam laws, so therefore no reduction
possible via that method.

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