FTC Chief Bashes Anti-Spam Bills

Posted by michael on Thursday August 21, 2003 @01:30AM from the you-could-at-least-try dept.

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.

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Challenge/response spam filtering by Mwongozi · 2003-08-21 01:41 · Score: 4, Informative

Is it just me, or is C/R spam filtering, really, intensely, annoying?

If I e-mail someone, and I get one of those "I think you're a spammer, prove you're not" messages back, then fuck it, you're not getting my e-mail. Challenge/response breaks the whole concept of e-mail.

I personally use SpamAssassin to drop mail scoring 5-10 into a crudbox, and 10+ just gets bounced.

I don't get much spam anymore.