Re: opt-out registry comments

Ant Brooks <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.ioz
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2011/08/02 1:34 PM, andre wrote:
>> Law-makers and politicians are unlikely to be convinced that SA needs
>> strong opt-in legislation purely on the strength of the opinions held
>> by a large number of Internet industry personalities, no matter how
>> vociferously those opinions are expressed.
>>
> Yes, but when law makers understand that it is in fact theft, even if
> it is only R10 per consumer, I think it places a different view on things.

I am afraid that I am not convinced that the action of sending
unsolicited commercial bulk mail meets the *legal* definition
of "theft".

> One of the things I am saying is that in it's basest principles unsolicited
> email is in fact theft.

But is this "principle" actually supported by an examination of South
African law?

Ant.

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