[LINK] I did my duty - and reported spam

[Adam Todd]

At 06:47 AM 24/07/2007, sylvano wrote:
>Gday Linkers
>
>My first ever spam from a registered political party!
>Woo hoo!
>
>I did my duty and used the ACMA online (unregistered
>user access) facility to the Spam reporting page,
>after having received an unsolicited email from the
>Citizens' Electoral Council (CEC) about their views,
>reactions and otherwise of the ABC's broadcast of the
>warming swindle and follow debate.

Except Political parties are exempt from the SPAM ACT :)

So you over reacted and didn't understand the law, and hence, like 
many people have no caused the ACMA to do what they will do more and 
more now - ignore the thousands of reports that come in each day 
because it's too hard and costly to try and find the legitimate 5 in 
the 1000's that aren't.

>The CEC advises the recipient that Schedule 1 of the
>Act let's them spam people, but of course the Act says,
>"Unsolicited commercial electronic messages must not be
>sent" where an email from a registered political party
>is a commerical electronic message.

It's not a commercial e-mail.  It doesn't purport to sell you a 
product that is marketed to the consumer.

Do they want you to pay them money and do they offer to give you 
something in return?

No.