Agency says current plans for anti-spam registry are flawed, may actually boost junk e-mail.

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it won't endorse a national 'do-not-e-mail' registry, saying current plans are so flawed they might actually boost the amount of junk e-mail.

The FTC said in a report it was convinced that the registry, as proposed, would be difficult to enforce because current technology cannot prevent spammers from obtaining copies of a registry and mining it for new addresses.

The FTC would be "largely powerless to identify those responsible for misusing the registry."
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