Re: opt-out registry comments

Ant Brooks said on Wednesday, August 03, 2011 :
> On 2011/08/03 8:41 AM, andre wrote:
> > The problem currently is that people do not understand that the
> > sending of bulk unsolicited emails is in itself criminal activity.
> 
> I'm not sure that *is* a criminal activity in SA right now.
> 
Okay, maybe you should explain to your NPA person that 
consumers pay for bandwidth and that their money is being
'taken' each time someone sends them spam. (being defined
as UBE) - then get his feedback if such a direct financial loss, albeit
even just a few cents (for a nice large .jpg spam) is theft/fraud

It cannot be just nuisance or noisy etc. as there is an actual and
quantifyable financial loss, very simialr to earlier banking fraud
where rounding causes the 'loss' of fractions of a cent to one client
but for 1000 000 a fraction of a cent translates into serious cash.

Anyway, I am very confident that spam is at the very least, fraud but 
I am hoping that it could be direct enough to be theft.

Let us know?

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