However, there are widespread fears that this would give junk mailers carte blanche to send at least one junk mail to everyone before consumers had a chance to set up a filter. EuroISPA is calling for all unsolicited commercial e-mail to be banned.
Junk mail costs consumers money through their phone bill and time to delete the unwanted mail.
It also costs ISPs money in bandwidth and capacity. This is a consumer protection measure, which I am sure the European Parliament will support. An online petition against junk e-mail by German magazine C T has gathered over one thousand signatures every day since it was launched almost two weeks ago, currently standing at just under 14,000.