[SpamCop-List] Re: Spam originating or spamvertizing AU sites

[Ellen]

"Harry Kiri" <completelyfalse at harrykiri.com> wrote in message
news:ce4gb3$794$1 at news.spamcop.net...
>
> This is amazing.  We are seeing an Australian Government unit asking
> SpamCop to look out for Australian spam?  Is Aussie spam now that rare
> that we must ask for other countries to look out for it?
>

That is not exactly correct -- the person who wrote to us said basically "if
you or your users want to report spam originated in or hosted by AU IPs then
you can do this ...."  It came up, actually, because there were some users
who were adding in an address in their reports which was not the right place
to send SC reports.  I am assuming that this group of people is trying to
get a decent handle on the situation and so they not only need to know what
Aussies are receiving but also what the rest of the world is. I mean they
won't have really cleared up the problems if all Aussie spammers carefully
avoid ever sending spam to other Aussies will they :-)


>
> Since late April, when the new Australian Spam laws came into effect,
> I've been salivating at the thought of reporting an "Aussie" spam to
> the ACA (yeah I know - I should get a life)- but I haven't seen any.
> Perhaps Aussie spams are now as rare as hens teeth?

Maybe it's better disguised?

>
> Could it be that the Australian laws (AUS$1.1 million fines per day)
> have completely killed "Aussie" spam?  It looks that way to me.  If
> so, how do you get other countries to wield a big stick too?

Wow that would be nice wouldn't it!


Ellen