AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
Posted on 07/07/2004 5:09:01 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
07 July 04
The United Nations has decided to tackle spam – and it thinks it can do it within two years by standardising legislation around the world. The International Telecommunications Union is hosting a meeting on spam in Geneva bringing together regulators from 60 countries, the Council of Europe and the World Trade Organisation.
Hopefully their anti-spam strategy will be to get them all in one room and crack their heads together until they agree to do something for a change. Yes, I have had a lot of spam today, thanks for asking.
"(We have) an epidemic on our hands that we need to learn how to control," Robert Horton, the acting chief of the Australian communications authority, told reporters: "International cooperation is the ultimate goal."
The UN intends to provide examples of anti-spam legislation for countries to adopt, to make prosecution and cross-border co-operation easier. How this will be regarded in countries that make a profit from sending spam is yet to be seen.
"If we don't work together," said Robert Shaw, Internet strategy expert with the United Nations' International Telecommunications Union (ITU), "we may see millions of people abandoning the Net entirely, out of frustration and disgust."
You've got that right, Bob. I'll be back in two years to see if the UN's strategy worked.
The ITU estimates that 85% of all email is now spam, compared to “just” 35% last year, and that anti-spam protection now costs computer users US$25 billion (€20.2 billion) a year. Roughly enough to feed everyone on the planet.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!
sure is a lot easier to fight Spam than Terrorism...
TRY NOT TO THROW THINGS AT YOUR SCREEN PING....................
Hmmm...put up with spam or give more power to corrupt scumbags with vision of becoming a tyrannical world government. Not a tough choice there, pass me the spam.
Spam does not have access to firearms so it may be safe for the UN.
"Spam? oh we will not stop until we have defeated spam accross the globe. It is really annoying when we want to look at porn on the web."
" No sir I said Sudan"
"Oh! Well shouldn't the U.S. do something about that? I mean this spam thing is going to have us tied up for two years. If the U.S. would wrap up that phoney war in Iraq, I mean its gonna take them longer to build democracy in Iraq than it will for us to destroy spam. Boy what a quagmire."
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Some things cannot be done -- but the UN doesn't get it.
For the love of God! Please UN, do not make a resolution on SPAM! Anything, but a resolution!
Spammers around the world are sweating with fear like French soldiers facing fierce cockroaches in a brightly lit kitchen.
Meanwhile, in the Sudan...
Don't you have anything without Spam in it?
(Former secretary-general of the United Nations.)
Actung! Ze spam vill yield to my rootless tactix! IT VILL YIELD OR IT VILL PAY!
(Valdheim gives the "sieg hiel" salute to the commandant of spam extermination at the United Nations, collects hefty severance package from the same body.)
Guess we know what they are going to spend the spoils of Saddams kick backs on..
"We'll monitor the situation from here."
Yeah I wondered how long it'd take them to find something, anything to get their filthy grubby little paws into the internet. I can see the delegates from Mauritania, North Korea, Syria, Namibia, and France sitting around a table debating this. Everyboody hatez SPAM! Ze SPAM is like beating dead puupieees! They will be willings to surrenders their freedoms for protection from ze Spam, NO?
Spammers will have the UN on the ropes in minutes.
I sense a Nigerian quagmire.
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