China to accelerate anti-spam law process

According to this article, China's anti-spam legislation is being pushed to accelerate the process of being put to law in the hopes that when it is in place more spammers will be caught.

A key point in the article being at the end:

hough spam seems to have slightly declined according to those figures, the biggest difficulty is still finding the original senders of spam. In China, it has been difficult to find the owners of certain IP (Internet Protocol) addresses because often the IPs are registered using proxy services, or are registered with false contact information. Li Yuxiao says the newly enacted "Internet IP Address Record Management Measures" are one way to solve the problem. These new measures will require better contact details from owners of Internet-based services.

If they currently can't even find who is sending the spam, then the spammers are set. This is bad for all countries since spammers will continue to operate out of China if this is the case. But according to this, once the in place, these changes should make it easier to track who registered what IP address and then go after them to find the spammer(s).

Posted by Eric at March 8, 2005 09:17 AM | TrackBack