Every time a politician talks about getting tough on SPAM (junk e-mail) it usually ends up having no impact. Now the European Commission (EC) has called upon all sectors (governments, ISP's etc.) to join the "fight":


It's good to see that Europe is finally starting to take SPAM seriously; unfortunately today's news appears to be little more than political window dressing. Until ALL global governments take a united and truly no-nonsense approach then the problem will never go away.

Sadly most politicians have a very two dimensional view of what is a three dimensional problem. Merely asking ISP’s to offer filtering technology, which can often cause almost as many problems as it solves (legitimate mail removal etc.), is not enough. More @ ZDNet.