Anti Spam plans by the clueless

Derek Wyatt MP has some brilliant ideas about spam and he is not afraid to sound off about it in public. On his site he has a short write up about his plans which involves incorporating a post code in all email addresses in order to track spammers to their homes. He suggests putting the postcode inside the domain name, so user@whatever.co.uk would become user@whateverpostcode.co.uk - visionary. In true British don't-even-think-of-looking-at-my14-year-old paranoia fashion he even has a plan for minors who do not want to hand out their postcodes - a PIN number instead of the postcode and the PIN would be assigned by none other than the Information Commissioner. Read the whole proposal here

This is the man who in his own biography says he went into politics because "I thought the British people deserved better."

NTK has the following to say, and I really cannot do any better.

Derek, unfortunately, appears to be fighting the good fight with the Shield of Wholesale Technical Misunderstanding and the U-Shaped Gun Of Shooting One's Own Mouth Off.

Derek is the Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Internet Group it really is encouraging to see such capable hands in charge of such an important group, from their website they state their mission as:

The All Party Parliamentary Internet Group exists to provide a discussion forum between new media industries and Parliamentarians for the mutual benefit of both parties. Accordingly, the group considers Internet issues as they affect society informing current Parliamentary debate through meetings, informal receptions and reports. The group is open to all Parliamentarians in both the House of Commons and House of Lords.

So much for living in the first world.