Governments need to pass more anti-spam laws, give law enforcement agencies more resources and work better across borders to combat unsolicited e-mail clogging up inboxes, an international economic group said Wednesday.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), an international forum of 30 countries established to promote economic growth and trade, also called on private industry to cooperate with government spam-fighting efforts and to help governments establish nationwide spam education campaigns. In addition, countries need to pass laws that provide "clear directions" on rules regarding bulk e-mail, the group said.
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It is a quite well produced doc .. definitely worth a read. I contributed a background paper to this, on Spam Problems in Developing Economies. This was in early 2005 and I am impressed with the amount of other material that has been included by the OECD to form this paper.
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suresh