Re: opt-out registry comments
Ant Brooks <[email protected]>
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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. _______________________________________________ IOZ mailing list [email protected] http://lists.internet.org.za/mailman/listinfo/ioz