the do not call list was a good idea. but it was labeled unconstitutional. something some of the antis should look at in the argument about spam, both are annoying marketing techniques, but are legal, and the highest courts in the land have said so.
the do not call list was effect because you had to call in yourself from your phone. with email that is not so plausable, because if i had a really kick ass email list that i dont want others to mail. i could write a quick and dirty little script to hit thier
[email protected] with every single email on the list. and what then?
furthurmore, do people want to pay more taxs to fight this rather then do something about it themselfs? the man hour it would take to administrat such a thing is monumental. plus a quick little look into the past anti-spam sites shows they get taken offline by people that cant be traced.... i hate to admit it. but there are people in this world that dont fear the US government and would ddos that donotmail.gov site and take it offline.
let alone the bandwidth bill of letting every spamer in the world download lists of 20million+ entries. or they could make the spammers send in thier lists, and let them get scrubbed by the government.... like thats gonna happen, and if it does. ill be first inline applying for that job, and borrowing all the lists
at present this is just not a plausible method of stopping spam.
editted for spelling, sorry. im high.