Experts: 'Do-Not-Spam' Services Don't Work
Web Sites Offering Spam Blocking Service Under Scrutiny
POSTED: 1:33 p.m. EDT August 5, 2003
Most people know now about the official "Do-Not-Call" lists to stop telemarketers. Now similar sites to stop spam e-mail messages are coming under scrutiny.
Spam messages are known as unsolicited e-mail advertisements. The web-based "Do-Not-Spam" lists are finding customers, but also skeptics.
Several Web sites offer, for a nominal fee, the service of screening the spam from your e-mail accounts. The services claim they have hit a novel and cheap way to cleanse customers' e-mail.
But government and private sector experts said such "do-not-spam" services are not likely to work because marketing firms are under no obligation to comply.
The head of the Federal Trade Commission's consumer protection division said "it's probably not worth signing up."
Ironically, many of the Do-Not-Spam services may have been inspired by that "Do-Not-Call" program.
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