China email servers’ illegal’
p2p news / p2pnet: Most companies running their own email servers in China are now breaking the law, thanks to new regulations.
And banned are many techniques often used by spammers, such as hijacking servers to use as ‘zombie’ spam relays, says venuet.com, going on:
“In addition, advertisers sending unsolicited commercial mail also need to prefix the subject line with ‘Advertisement’ or ‘AD’, and comply with recipients’ requests to cease sending them unwanted email.”
New email licensing rules went into effect two weeks ago as part of a anti-spam law from China’s Ministry of Information Industry (MII) and, "The chilling effect on corporate email servers, which are commonly used by companies with more than a handful of employees, appears to have gone unnoticed until now," says the story.
"More than 600,000 servers were sold in China last year, according to market researchers. It’s unclear how many of these are running mail server software, which includes programs like Microsoft Outlook Server, Sendmail, Qmail or Lotus Notes."
China’s new rules also prohibit use of email to, "discuss certain vaguely defined subjects related to ‘network security’ and ‘ information security’, and also reiterate that emails which contain content contrary to existing laws must not be copied or forwarded," says the story, adding:
"Wide-ranging laws of this nature have been used against political and religous dissenters in the past."
Also See:
venuet.com – China Outlaws Outlook, April 14, 2006
