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Old 04-07-2007, 12:47 PM
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Just received a spam email from a company in Limerick offering to sell me email scanning services that will cut by spam by 90% ...ironic I know!

Now this is the second email they have sent me, I have tried to unsubscribe but no avail.

Can I report them to anyone?
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Name and shame!
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Sure the email was sent by an Allen Tempy of elive.net - email address tempy@elive.net




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Report them to spamcop ....
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Report them to spamcop ....
Agreed. Spamcop can cause a pain in the arse for companies like that. Irony is not the word!
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The handy thing about spamcop is that it will automatically parse the mails to send abuse reports to the correct people
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Well I have reported everything to Spamcop
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Always report spam to the ISP / national authority in charge of this from the country of the spammer source. This will immediately lower the chances of more spam.
That won't make any difference and to think so is incredibly naive
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What is the Irish law on email spam? Is it like CANSPAM
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What is the Irish law on email spam? Is it like CANSPAM
It's a bit stronger (which wouldn't be hard)

Basically EU law differentiates between individuals and business.

If you are a business user the spammer can send you an email, but they must stop once you tell them to.

If you are a personal user they have no right to spam you

If there is an existing business relationship then companies can email you with information related to the business relationship.

So, for example, we can email clients about anything to do with hosting and domains, but if we were to start a new business selling coffee we couldn't use the mailing list to promote it. (Not the best example, but I hope you get the general idea)

There's more information on the data privacy site
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