On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 09:05:16 +1200, Bruce Simpson
<checksigformyre@no-spam> wrote:
>On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:55:32 +1200, DPF <david@no-spam> wrote:
>
>>He appeared very unrepentant on Holmes last night which hardened
>>opinion significantly.
>
>Yes, if the action isn't continued the other spammers will learn that
>they can do exactly what Shane did and escape prosecution by simply
>saying "okay, I'll stop now" -- after pocketing goodness knows how
>much money fleeced from idiots who buy their shonky wares.
>
>We need to show spammers and would-be spammers that even though the
>government is so lame that it puts anti-spam legislation in the "too
>hard" basket, ther are other laws that can be bought to bare on them.
Yep. This issue on the members list has had almost a record number of
participants about the desirability of continuing.
>>Most energy over last few years has been fixing the problems with .nz
>>domain name registrations. That phase will end in early September
>>with the sale of Domainz and we have been gearing up in other areas.
>>Contributing to the fight against spam comes up really high on almost
>>everyone's priorities.
>
>Mind you -- it could be said that many of those problems were of
>ISOCNZ's/InternetNZ's own making originally couldn't it?
Oh they were, but one should remember InternetNZ is what its members
make of it - it is not a static beast. There are only a couple of
people on the current Council who were on Council four years ago. The
few of us still around have been devoting considerable time to making
things better.
DPF
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For the benefit of Google archives, seeing as the link from the onenews.nzoom.com
front page will be shortlived:
http://onenews.nzoom.com/common/video_popup/1,2051,holmes,00.html?filename=spammer_180803.rpm
Comments that spamfighters have no lives, etc, the usual spammer bullshit.
Having viewed the article, I'm in no doubt that he intends to continue
operating under the radar.
