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Among the changes passed in the Spam Control Bill is an opt-out option for those who do not wish to receive spam.
The Bill also sets out basic requirements for legitimate direct electronic mass marketing.
For instance, messages must be labelled advertisements in their headers, and there must be an unsubscribing facility.
But with four out of five spam messages originating from overseas, MPs feared such local legislation would only hurt local players.
“Given that the bulk of spam is from overseas, we can reasonably expect that the winners will be the foreign spammers with Viagra and organ enlargers. The losers will be our local law-abiding SMEs who are trying to leverage the Internet as a low-cost marketing medium to promote their business,” said MP Ho Geok Choo.
There are already talks of ways around the new laws. Loop holes if you will. It wont really hurt law abiders this time. They are talking about a bill though that will bring all players world wide under accountability and control. Once that is brought together, then they will be able to control things. Great, like we need more control. I would be happy to just have a good spam filter.