China Cracks Down On Junk E-mail

Jonathan at 8:53 pm on Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Junk e-mail is such a pain in the bum. As a webmaster we usually put our e-mails out on sites and sometimes these can receive a lot of junk e-mail. Now, there are many ways to solve this problem, but China has taken a very tough approach.

China will soon be putting a new law into place whereby it would make mailing someone for the purpose of advertising against the law and would have these e-mails labeled as:”AD” or “advertisement”. China has 111 million Internet users and a survey done in China claims that 60% of e-mail received by the average person is junk mail.

China has been recently in the news with its release of Google in China. China agreed to allow Google to run in China if they agreed to its censoring practices.

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