FTC Chief Bashes Anti-Spam Bills

teutonic_leech writes "According to an MSNBC report FTC chairman Tim Muris has indicated that the antispam laws being considered by Congress 'just won't work and may even be counterproductive - some of the proposed laws could be harmful, or at best useless.' He further concluded that 'In the end, legislation cannot do much to solve the spam problem, because it can only make a limited contribution to the crucial problems of anonymity and cost shifting.'" Other spam bits: an anti-spam service has a funny interview with one of their users, and reader der.hans submits a story and some pretty pictures discussing the quantity of Sobig.f virus emails.

Comments

Funny interview?

[Anonymous Coward]

I couldn't bear it!! I read about 6 lines. Who does that guy think he is? I've never heard of him but he seems to love himself!

Relative of Katz, perhaps?

best quote

[RevDobbs]

best quote from the Knowspam.net interview:

Q. What are you doing with all your extra time now that you aren't getting spam?

A. . . . Petting the cat. Not a entendre, by the way. Real cat. . . .

Re:Automate the challenge/response ...

[iainl]

A few seconds of computing time on what, exactly? My 28MHz Amiga A1200 does a perfectly acceptable job as a Pine station, but I'd really rather not have it solve something the Athlon 2800+ takes 'a few seconds' over every time it sends an email!

Re:Always funny

[Hayzeus]

It also makes it impossible for people to do business, since it will be impossible for people to introduce themselves through e-mail.

I agree completely. So please allow me to introduce myself to you. I am Thomas N'Gemba, formerly of the Ministry of Finance of Nigeria. I and my associates have recently discovered aporximately USD$10,000,000.00 in unsecured funds...