 DUBLIN -- Cormac Callanan, chairman of the ISP Provider Association of Ireland and director of Hotline.ie spoke about spam and the Internet at an IIA event. He's pictured on the right, holding a microphone to a PolySpan phone while answering a call-in question from Brian Walsh.
Callanan established EUNET in Ireland in 1991. He's well familiar with tech dimensions behind mail servers, open relays and the responsibilities ISPs have dealing with spam. He had 13 slides for viewing, including some including porn popups from his personal email. He pointed out how the EU eCommerce Directive 2000 covers "unsolicited commercial communications" and how they should not result in charges by the recipient. As his audience was largely nontechnical, Callanan spent most of his alloted 20 minutes talking about the directives, definitions of opt-in, opt-out and other countries handling spam.
Callanan doesn't think EU directives outlawing spam will stop spam because most of what he receives comes from outside Europe. He has graded the spam he has received during the past fortnight and 113 are about sex, 13 about virus, 89 about business -- about 26 spams a day. He notes that child porn is distributed by spam, a fact that concerns him in his work at Hotline.ie.
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