FTC: "No no-spam list." Chuckie: "Oh yeah?"

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The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports,

FTC Chairman Timothy Muris announced yesterday that the agency would not develop a do-not-spam list similar to the highly popular do-not-call list; Muris said the list would be ineffective because spammers would simply choose to ignore it.  Worse still, he said such a registry could be exploited by spammers to increase their mass sending of junk email.

Well, DUH.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., a supporter in Congress for a no-spam registry, said the FTC's decision was disappointing.

"The registry is not the perfect solution but it is the best solution we have," Schumer said.

And with Chuckie weighing in in support of the do-not-spam list, you KNOW it was a bad idea.  (Not like you didn't know that before now, right?)  Naturally, having been told that the do-not-spam registry won't work, Chuckie is now investigating legislative options to force the FTC to create it (or so says the Washington Post).  The FTC wisely pointed out that the very first thing spammers would do is mine the registry for email addresses, and that lacking any form of email authentication, there would be no way to know who was honoring the registry and who was just using it as a compilation of verified email addresses to spam.  Needless to say, the logic of this argument is completely lost on Chuckie.