Ah, the Good Old Days(tm). I seem to recall a list of "reasons your anti-spam proposal won't work" someone would post every time someone came up with a new way to fight spam that included things like "It requires spammers to change their behavior" and "it involves a central authority or agency to approve emails" and stuff like that. Seems relevant given the way SMTP is structured, and the FTC was right to say "not going to happen" in this report. Sadly my search-fu wasn't strong enough to find that original list anywhere.
On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 4:47 PM Anne Mitchell via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > For those who didn't know, you may find this infuria...interesting. Did > you know that CAN-SPAM mandated that the FTC look at creating a Do Not > Email list and report their findings within 6 months of CAN-SPAM being > enacted? That report was created and delivered, and it is 60 pages of "why > we can't do that", culminating in "the Commission concludes that, under > present conditions, a National Do Not Email Registry in any form would not > have any beneficial impact on the spam problem. It is clear, based on > spammers’ abilities to exploit the structure of the email system, that the > development of a practical and effective means of authentication is a > necessary tool to fight spam. Therefore, the Commission encourages the > private market to develop an authentication standard. Authentication is not > only required to make a Registry effective, but may even substantially > address the underlying problem that prompted Congress to consider the > establishment of a Registry." > > You can read all 60 pages here: > > > https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/reports/can-spam-act-2003-national-do-not-email-registy-federal-trade-commission-report-congress/report.pdf > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop >
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