Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 12:23:31 +0100
From: Jon Crowcroft
<J(_dot_)Crowcroft(_at_)cs(_dot_)ucl(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk>
Message-ID: <12034(_dot_)995714611(_at_)cs(_dot_)ucl(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk>
| is the database of rfc authors declared under the Data Protection Act
| in the UK, with the reasons and uses?
For what it is worth, the UK seems to have gotten on exactly the
right track in killing spam (and other similar abuses).
It isn't the e-mail that is really the evil, that's just a symptom
of the true problem, which is misuse of personal data for purposes other
than which it was originally given.
Fix that problem, which a few more countries introducing legislation
along the UK lines would do (one in particular...) and the vast majority
of the spam will simply go away.
kre