Comments:

Re: CAN-SPAM Act Rulemaking, Project No. R411008To the Commissioners,Thank you for your efforts to cut down on unsolicited emails. However, I am concerned aboutthe proposed requirement for merchants to maintainsuppression lists.This idea will cost a small business like mine a lot of money in complience; it is hard enough as a small business to retain a profit. Regulations like this only make it more difficult.Requirement of the use of suppression lists willseriously damage many of the legitimate publications available on the net. I am particularly concerned about the limits on companies who require everyone to subscribe to their email list.Businesses like mine are not the type that CAN-SPAM was designed to put out of business, but this requirement will very likely havethat effect.There's also the potential for significant harm toconsumers, because of the problem of properly knowing their intent when they unsubscribe from a list. On top of that, these suppression lists could easily fall into the hands of spammers, leading to more spam instead of less.I urge you to carefully reconsider this potentially damaging aspect of an otherwise good law.Respectfully,Mark HellwegWakeside, LLC