Stuff.co.nz, 27th August 2007, "Firms 'overreact' to spam act"

"We will be proactively contacting these people to encourage their voluntary compliance." Bradley Anstis, director of product management at international security software company Marshal, which has its worldwide development centre in Auckland, says the anti-spam act will not have much effect on spam volumes.

Just 0.1 per cent of spam is sent from within New Zealand - though he expects that proportion will now go down. Marshal is willing to provide technical assistance to Internal Affairs to help it enforce the act if requested, he says.

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