Indeed it's legal. When the anti-spam law was passed, a special exemption was put in to allow politicians to send spam.
IIRC, this was Leiberman's initiative. Rony -----Original Message----- From: linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il [mailto:linux-il-boun...@cs.huji.ac.il] On Behalf Of Dotan Cohen Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 9:26 AM To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: Re: Hebrew spam: what to do about it? > Shachar seems to suggest that this might be used for a small claims > court case in which the spammer may be sued for up to 1000 NIS per > email. > I'll donate the 1000 NIS right back into anti-spam efforts or to KDE or something. > Slightly off-topic: I got annoyed by political spam that was sent to my > work address (at least 4 messages, with a considerable size) Result: > blacklisted mailing list messages from their provider (and notified them > as well). > > While it might be legal, I personally find this behaviour unacceptable. > The spam I got was political spam as well. This is legal? The message said at the bottom that it is legal, but I doubt it. What is special about political spam that it is excepted from the law? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-??-?-? ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? ?-?-?-?-?-?-? _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
