A government-run “Do Not Spam” registry would only generate more unwanted e-mail because unscrupulous marketers would simply treat it as a source of leads, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday.

In other words, if there was a guaranteed way of identifying and authenticating the source of the sending emails, they might endorse it, but because of proxies and other deceptive spamming techniques, they can’t get behind it at this time. In the meantime, Bill Gates says he will rid the web in under 600 days of spam. We’ll keep the countdown going (see lefthand side of main page for the countdown).

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