robertshaw.info Telecoms, Internet and Convergence  31 May 2002 Fighting SPAM An article on Slashdot says that the European Union is moving toward legislation requiring specific opt-in to receive commercial email (errr... SPAM). Hooray. There's an increasing amount of legislative activity around the world to deal with SPAM such as the US Can SPAM act which prohibits sending unsolicited commercial e-mail "accompanied by header information that is materially or intentionally false or misleading". Let's hope the legislators eventually get it right and stamp this stuff out just like they did fairly effectively with unsolicited faxes.  11:03:10 AM    Google It!     News on ENUM Implementation This ITU information note to the press summarizes the progress being made on ENUM in ITU-T Study Group 2, ITU-T's lead Study Group on numbering issues. For ISOC's corresponding press release, see here. For information on delegations, see RIPE NCC's ENUM pages. For more information on ENUM, see the materials from a recent ITU tutorial workshop on ENUM and particularly Global Implementation of ENUM: A Tutorial Paper, much of which written by yours truly and the smart folks at Nominum, the authors of the latest version of BIND, the DNS software. The ITU Strategy and Policy Unit also maintains some information pages on ENUM.  10:16:18 AM    Google It!

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