A German court has just ruled that filtering e-mail based on content is illegal. The ruling was on a case unrelated to spamming, but filtering based on content is how most SPAM is blocked, so this foolish judge may just have caused a massive dent in anti-spam operations. It makes you wonder why the people deciding and enforcing on our IT related laws, are the ones least qualified to do so. If they should suddenly find themselves inundated by spamming companies, they will have only themselves to blame.
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