AW: [governance] [] US, UK and Canada refuse to sign UN's internet treaty

[Roland Perry]

In message <E1Tn4l3-00042C-T2 at frodo.hserus.net>, at 15:25:41 on Mon, 24 
Dec 2012, Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net> writes
>Actually the focus in industry (maawg) and intergovernmental (Apectel 
>spsg, oecd) has been on criminal spam.. The same with other, more 
>closed / vetted groups
>
 >Snowshoe spammers as well as poor best practices at more legitimate 
 >email marketers is getting less and less priority compared to criminal 
 >spam over the past few years

Glad to hear it, and plenty of precedent for ITU to build upon. No need 
to invent new definitions.

However, I cannot agree with their RESOLUTION 130 (Rev. Guadalajara, 
2010) characterising spam as "usually with the objective of marketing 
commercial products or services", *especially* if the definition of 
"commerce" has to be bent to include proceeds of crime.

Apart from the fact that stealing money from my bank account isn't 
marketing a commercial product of service, but it also serves to 
unhelpfully blur the line between the 'genuine' clueless marketer and 
the person trying to sell me a fake Rolex or a share of the deceased 
ex-President's secret $20 million hoard.

Today's scam was offering me a fake tax refund, but they spoilt it (not 
that it wasn't already painfully obvious) by sending me the email eight 
times.
-- 
Roland Perry

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