[Asrg] FTC says no do-not-email until there's authentication

[John Levine <asrg at johnlevine.com>]

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission just released their report on a
do-not-email list, which says that it's not a good idea, at least
not right now.

they also said that the biggest reason it's not a good idea is that
it's nearly impossible to tell where any particular spam came from,
and Internet e-mail needs better authentication, like what MARID is
doing.  They go on to say that they hope that industry (that's us)
come up with something, but if we don't, the government should mandate
one.

The FTC understands the spam problem quite well, they know all of the
other reasons that a do-not-email list, particularly one of individual
addresses, would be a bad idea, so PLEASE don't rehash them here.

If you want to comment further, it would be a good idea to look at the
press release and report first.  You can quote the first two words on
page 33 so we can tell that you've looked at the report.


http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/06/canspam2.htm (press release)
http://www.ftc.gov/reports/dneregistry/report.pdf (report)

Regards,
John Levine, johnl at taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
http://www.taugh.com

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