[Gllug] Spam

Chris Hunter chrisehunter at blueyonder.co.uk
Sat Oct 15 00:13:51 UTC 2005


Richard Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:47:07AM +0100, Mike Leigh wrote:
> 
>>This also allows me to see which companies give out my address when I
>>tell them not to.  Which surprisingly is about 20% of them.  The
> 
> 
> This is clearly illegal under the Privacy and Electronic
> Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.  You should find out
> which companies are doing this and complain to the Information
> Commissioner.

Forget it - the "Information Commissioner" is utterly useless, and isn't 
worth the waste of bandwidth.  Spam is probably going to be come the 
third certainty in life (after death and taxes)!

Chris


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