It's been a while...

Greetings SpamCop Digest reader,

It's been many months since the last SpamCop Digest was published. 
This was due partially to me being lazy, coupled with me joining the 
US Army and having to go off for training from January until June. 
Now that I've returned, the list should be a bit more active.

I'm going to start off with two articles, relating to spam, from Spamhaus.org:

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* The Spam Definition and Legalization Game
http://www.spamhaus.org/newsdog.lasso?article=116
The word Spam means "Unsolicited Bulk Email". Unsolicited means that 
the Recipient has not granted verifiable permission for the message 
to be sent. Bulk means that the message is sent as part of a larger 
collection of messages, all having substantively identical content. 
But ask a spammer and he'll claim spam is something else.

* United States Heads Towards Legalization of Spam
http://www.spamhaus.org/newsdog.lasso?article=117
With all of Europe set to implement Opt-in legislation by October, 
Europe has taken the lead in banning spam and is no longer waiting 
for the United States to stop the huge American spam problem, problem 
that most of Europe suffers from with over 90% of all spam hitting 
Europe being sent by American (mostly Florida-based) spammers.

But the United States is going in the opposite direction to Europe 
and is now set to explode the spam problem far worse than it is 
today, incredibly by actually legalizing Unsolicited Bulk Email 
instead of banning it.
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That's it for this issue. Look for more to come soon!

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Pete Stephenson
HeyPete.com