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Hi Well I think it’s about time to make some changes to the whole unsolicited Email Campaigns. I have tried and put them in to priorities. 1. Spamming must be prohibited and I personally would say that the once who are using anonymous proxy mail clients are the worst offenders --that must be stopped because its the worst kind of Spam you can get, we are talking about Porn, Drugs, Viruses, Loans and Gambling Sites. This is the bare truth, these guys spoil it all. If you are able to stop this that would be a major improvement. These Offenders must be identified and stopped from doing it because it is very irritating. 2. We, all get physically Spammed through our Letterbox, day in day out, and guess what? I have not even asked for it, I mean anything comes through the letterbox, supermarket ads...DIY shop ads etc, I should not have to put a label on my letter Box saying "No commercial mail please" and therefore think that is a bigger issue than commercial Email, because it needs physical disposing rather that drag and drop on to the desktop bin, I think you are getting the idea of what I mean if NO.1 is solved the whole thing becomes easier-- to start with -- 3. I agree if a potential customer Opted out with a specific email address, that this person must not receive any more mail from the same company incl. from a different sender (working for the same company offering the same product), again in the post we get the same stuff all over again, at least electronically someone can opt out. and then must not receive any mails of that particular firm, so the person who opts out must be put on a main exclusion list and all other lists with in that firm must be purged against that email address -- technically possibly -- good idea 4. If for instance a person has showed interest and opted in my eyes that person can legally get more emails of the same character, the way this is handled at the moment is pretty good, double opt in and and opt out is a must, The Opt out facility must be genuine, very often it does not work or it leads to further pests, so people need to be aware in the future that opting out is as save as buying something on a secure server. 5. If for instance someone exposes their details on a web page and are potentially a customer of someone who searches for business, I think that the person who exposes their details can expect door knockers and I think that is fair trading nowadays, we have people in the roads over here knocking on doors offering everything you can possibly think of, Agencies do a lot of cold calling etc, The WWW has become too popular to change this, If someone for instance does not want any of that they should state that on their web page or disclose their details, Again I would consider this as fair trading. My Conclusion is and I am talking from experience: Stop the real Spammers Improve Opting In and Out Put effective Measurements in place so that an incoming server has the permission to be accepted, in other words the user should have an option to control the traffic Identify, Warn and punish Offenders Run a campaign explaining everything to Internet Users and guess what -- there will be less spamming and the Internet will be more respected as a fair trading place and we will all benefit from that. Kind regards Kai Schonberg