Send us just one spam and you're nicked

The legislation means that if an individual in the UK spams another, she or he will be liable to a £5,000 fine, or #5,000 as our totally feeble Department of Trade and Industry has it.

It's a criminal offence that can be tried by a magistrate but if an individual decides to have her or his case tried before a jury, she or he will face an unlimited fine.

Our dozy government reckons that 50% of emals are spams, so obviously most of the stuff they get is filtered by armies of civil servants first.

According to the DTI, unsolicited emals and text messages will need prior agreement and can only be sent if the poor sods that get them agree in advance.

The DTI says "there is an exception to this rule in the context of an existing customer relationship".

We're looking forward to calling the cops the minute we receive an unsolicited SMS or a spam, and no doubt the boys in blue are manning the 999 number just waiting to pounce on the evil spamsters.

We wonder if the UK government will extradite aliens who break this undoubtedly non-Draconian law? µ

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