Do-Not-Email Registries?

prgrmr writes "Wired has an article about Colorodo and Missouri's latest legislative proposals to deal with spam and with spammers. There appears to be actual consumer-protective teeth in these bills which mirror the telephone 'do not call' lists. A nice example of a government perpetuating a working concept instead of trying inventing new ways to break things."

Next step:

[Lord Bitman]

Next, try and get all spammers to admit that what they are sending is "unsolicited". That's not going to happen any time soon.

What about the rest of us?

[Doctor Sbaitso]

Will there be an opt-in list for those of us who still want to enlarge our penises and make money fast?

I was wondering

[Lord_Slepnir]

Hi. I an email market-person from Laos. Where I get list so...ummm...I know who... er...not ... to send e-mail?

If ever there was a bad idea..

[attackiko]

..this is it!

Can you imagine what will happen when the spammers get the list?

I count ~90 "First Post"s

[Omkar]

'nuff said.

Re:What about the rest of us?

[C0LDFusion]

The opt-in is having lots of pr0n cookies on your computer.