Showing posts with the label australia

iiNet users losing free email access

Australian internet service provider (ISP) and telecoms provider iiNet Limited (aka TPG, Internode and Westnet) is getting out of the email business. Instead of an outright shutdown, the core iiNet email services are being transitione d to "The Messaging Company" and …

Reference: Telstra Email Domains

Australian telecommunications provider Telstra has long provided internet services (including email), initially via the "Bigpond" brand ( launched in 1996 , later retired ). They're reported to have 18.8 million customer accounts , though I don't know how man…

Australian woman arrested for email bombing

From Bleeping Computer : A woman in Australia was arrested for sending over 32,000 emails to a Federal Member of Parliament, impacting systems enough that people weren't able to do their normal jobs as a result. She faces charges that could result in a prison term of up to …

ACMA fines Sportsbet $2.5 million AUD over spam

Compliance with spam laws is still a necessary thing, you know. And failing to follow the rules can get really, really expensive. A few weeks ago, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), the Australian regulator of media and communications, announced that onl…

Changes to the Spam Act in Australia

Toshi Onishi, Senior Deliverability Analyst for dotdigital reports on specific recent updates to Australia's federal anti-spam law (and I think he did a good job in breaking down the changes in a way easy to share and understand). Of course, I'm not a lawyer and this i…