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Telecom Firm Cracks Down on Junk E-mail
Web surfers are being warned not to send junk e-mail or they risk losing their accounts or being penalized in other ways, according to Tuesday's Chinadaily.
In what appears to be the first such rules in the country, the paper cited China Telecom as saying that special mailboxes will be used to receive complaints from those who receive unsolicited electronic mail.
Under the new provision, any subscriber using China Telecom Internet Protocol network will be affected. They will be warned, or have their service suspended or permanently terminated, if they are found to have sent unwanted e-mail which annoys other users or affects the performance of the network.
In the worst cases, China Telecom has warned it will pass on user details to law-enforcement bodies for investigation, according to the provisions, which were published in major Chinese newspapers Monday.
According to the regulations, dial-up users will be warned and afterwards put on a monitoring list for three days following complaints against them. If they ignore it and go on sending junk e-mail, their accounts will be suspended or closed down.
The paper cited Chang Xiaobing, vice-president of China Telecom, as saying that it was impossible to completely block the transmission of junk e-mail with the existing technology, so the ultimate solution was to bring in anti-spam laws.
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