(keitai-l) Re: 6.5 million yen fine to imode spammer

From: Nick May <nick_at_kyushu.com>
Date: 03/27/03
Message-id: <fc.000f76100008b27b3b9aca00a706b5c0.8b27c@kyushunet.com>
I also think it is low, of the just under a billion emails send each day, 
880 million are to non-existent addresses.... 

that sounds expensive.

<snip>
>DoCoMo investigations found that about 950 million e-mails are sent to
i-mode users each day, but about 880 million of these are sent >to
addresses that do not exist. (Mainichi Shimbun, March 26, 2003)
</snip>




keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
>
>    Seems kind of low to me.  Spamming imode phones has been a major
>problem all over Japan.  Should have fined them 6.5 million dollars to
>make a point that spamming mobile phones is not good.
>
>    Of course I mean large scale phone spamming, on the other hand
>email spam has some legitimate uses once in awhile, but it is almost
>always abused
>rather than used, which is very sad.
Received on Thu Mar 27 04:36:00 2003