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Hello folks, Currently our website offers an 'email this page to a friend' option at the foot of many of our central pages, designed to allow clients of the site to mail the URLs of interesting pages to other potentially interested parties. For an example, see: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/central/visitors.hti This service presently allows the sender and recipient to be specified without either authenticating the sender or asking permission of the recipient. As this service essentially offers an anonymous emailing service open to anyone, we are concerned that it may contravene the new EU directive on spam which comes into force on 11 December. This directive states: "Under the new law, companies will have to get permission from an individual before they can send them an e-mail or text message.". Does anyone else offer such a service? If so, have they considered this issue? And can anyone offer a solution other than either removing the service or forcing the sender to register with the University? There's a useful BBC article on this at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3120628.stm with relevant links. I note, by the way, that the BBC are still offering a similar service and have included a disclaimer - will this be adequate? Any advice gratefully received. Regards, Mike ------------ Mike McConnell Web Team Manager [log in to unmask] http://www.abdn.ac.uk/web University of Aberdeen Directorate of Information Systems and Services Edward Wright Building Dunbar Street Aberdeen AB 24 3UF Tel: +44 (0)1224 27 2602 Fax: +44 (0)1224 27 3372