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Benjamin Franklin called that "doing well by doing good" when he lobbied for a national postal service.



The whole concept wasn't feasible and had serious privacy issues. Good summary of why it was rejected at the national level here: https://www.govtech.com/security/us-turns-down-do-not-spam.h...

> A registry of individual e-mail addresses also suffers from severe security/privacy risks that would likely result in registered addresses receiving more spam because spammers would use such a registry as a directory of valid e-mail addresses. It ultimately would become the National Do Spam List. Furthermore, a registry of domains would have no impact on spam and a third-party forwarding service model could have a devastating impact on the e-mail system.

Also, the laws Unspam pushed for were intentionally tailored to make them the only suitable vendor. Leveraging personal connections and paid lobbying to compel taxpayers to fund a counterproductive, privacy-violating and monopolistic service is not what I'd call "doing good" but YMMV.


Why does the do not call registry work, but the do not email wouldn't?


What makes you think the do-not-call registry works? I still receive dozens of spam calls per day.


Weird, I receive 0





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