Singapore fights spam

Like everybody else, we are absolutely against spam. We are always saying that if there is someone coming from outer space in a couple of 1,000 years and finds fragments of computers and reads e-mails, those guys might think that we have great technology, but a huge lack in printer ink, that we populated the earth but needed a lot of viagra to do so. Just because they found computer e-mail inundated with spam.

Okay - governments across the globe take actions against it, and now it is Singapore's turn (http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040525/API/405250664). The government is saying that spammers caught can be fined 58 cents for each spam e-mails - we believe they mean Singapore Dollars. Okay - most of the spammers in Singapore probably spam from the outside of the country - we reported earlier that China is one of the favourite origins (do spammers spam in Chinese as well?). Attorney General Chambers official Charles Lim is also quoted as proposing that spam would need to have an opt-out inclusion. Now this shows that he is not so much up to date - spammers just love it if you notify them that you want to opt out - since they frequently operate on a "luck" base - shooting out computer-generated mails with possible name combination, a response to an opt-out option would show them that they actually reached an active e-mail address. To know that an e-mail address is active increases the price in case spammers want to resell addresses - know what we mean?