FTC joins international anti-spam efforts

[Wazoo]

FTC joins international anti-spam efforts

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) signed off on a set of anti-spam recommendations by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a coalition of 30 countries organized to promote economic growth and trade.

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The FTC has implemented many of the OECD recommendations. For example, it has engaged in aggressive law enforcement against international spammers; worked with an international network of spam enforcement authorities; partnered with the private sector on consumer education; and encouraged the private sector to implement domain-level authentication systems. In addition, the FTC has suggested that Congress enact legislation called the US SAFE WEB Act that would give the FTC new tools to cooperate with foreign counterparts in fighting spam and other types of cross-border fraud.

[ugnn]

While this is obviously good news for honest internet users,

if it goes the same way as all the other FTC / Gov efforts,

it will only spin wheels and burn tax money.

I do indeed wish some of their efforts would actually work.

But they won't. Law enforcement is not technically enabled to

actually cope with spam... they're too slow, and too wrapped

up in legal red tape to act.

Until they take back the DNS system, nothing will happen.

But it is good news that someone up there is trying

Fred

PS: if you sat through the FTC's "spam Forum" in 2002, (where

I had the great pleasure of meeting and chatting with the

creator of SpamCop,) you would realize the futility of the

FTC's efforts -- when they refused to address the ICANN issue --

the very root of the spam and online crime problem.