Singapore Follows USA and Aussie Spam Law
Well, Singapore just passed an anti-spam bill based upon the American and Australian models and apparently, they expect it to the just as effective in the prevention of unwanted email. (Note the touch of sarcasm there)The Spam Control Act, passed by the Singapore Parliament in April of 2007, does not apply to all email, only those messages arising in Singapore. As cited in the article, “enforcement against foreign spammer would be costly as well as highly uncertain”. We’ve heard statements similar to this a lot, mostly from countries that try to legislate away the spam problem.
What is the reason for doubts about Singapore’s antispam measures? Well as usual, with the new law that is only relevant to spam within Singapore borders, foreign email is not under control. As stated in the article, “four out of five spam messages originate overseas”.
The conclusion… Even in Singapore, with 80% of their spam email originating on servers outside of the country, “Country-of-Origin” email filtering would be highly effective. In fact, “Country-of-Origin” email filtering would be more effective than Singapore’s legislative actions and that is pretty much true anywhere in the world.
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