Dealing with spam

Malta is one of thirteen European countries that have united to tackle spam and to pledge to exchange information on e-mail abuses. Simon Taylor reports for IDG News Service:

Under an agreement announced by the European Commission on Monday, the countries' antispam authorities -- in most cases their data protection offices -- have pledged to exchange information on e-mail system abuses and to follow up on complaints about spammers operating on their territory from other countries.

Commenting on the agreement, E.U. Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding said: "Enforcement authorities in member states must be able to deal effectively with spam from other E.U. countries, even through at present most spam originates from outside the E.U."
The move is designed to tackle the problem where spammers operate outside the territory of the member state that has received a complaint about abusive e-mail and the national enforcement agency cannot act because it lacks legal powers to take action in another member state.

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