No Federal Do-Not-Spam Registry For Now

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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Intelligent Move

[nurb432]

In this case i totally agree. Adding another governmental body to oversee something that is a lost cause would be stupid and only cause more money to be wasted.

I'm really surprised to hear some intelligence from them..

Now, the next logical step would be to help move things along so that it the list WOULD be of value...