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No Federal Do-Not-Spam Registry For Now

Posted by michael on from the what-me-worry dept.

Decaffeinated Jedi writes "The AP reports today that the U.S. government has no plans to create a do-not-spam registry in the immediate future. Why not? They argue that the proper technology is not yet in place. 'A national do-not-e-mail registry, without a system in place to authenticate the origin of e-mail messages, would fail to reduce the burden of spam and may even increase the amount of spam received by consumers,' said the commission." The moral of the story is: never try. See the FTC's press release or their report (pdf).

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  1. Obligatory Star Wars by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    The moral of the story is: never try

    Try not, do or do not, there is no try

  2. In related news... by ace123 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The DNS registry just went down for many of the major internet sites today.

    Something makes me think that this whole DNS registry won't continue to work in the long run.