Posted on 10/31/2003 6:52:53 AM PST by freepatriot32
Edited on 06/29/2004 7:10:07 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
LONDON -- British lawmakers plan to use a new tactic to stop the torrent of junk e-mail spam that floods in from overseas: extraditing the mass-mailers and bringing them to trial in the United Kingdom.
"Spammers are no longer an irritant, they are a threat," British MP Brian White said Thursday. The U.K. last month was the second European Union country after Italy to criminalize spam in a law that goes into effect in December.
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