p2pnet.net News:- Opta, the Dutch telecom body, has issued the country’s first fines against spammers.

“The Independent Post and Telecommunications Authority … also said it has signed an agreement with French privacy watchdog CNIL to exchange information on spammers,” says the Associated Press, going on:

“The highest single fine - euro45,000 (US$61,000) - went to a person involved with four spam e-mails, including one message praising Hitler’s book ‘Mein Kampf’ that was disguised to appear as if it were sent from a Dutch anti-spam activist."

Opta was empowered to enforce a Dutch ban on spam in May.”

The Netherlands isn’t mentioned in the recent Dirty Dozen World’s Worst Spam Countries list in which the US has the dubious distinction of being #1.

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See:-
Dutch ban - Dutch Telecom Watchdog Issues First Fines Against Spammers, December 28, 2004
Dirty Dozen - US: world’s worst spammer, p2pnet, December 27, 2004

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