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CAN-SPAM registery will not work. The TRUE spammers will find a way to send spam. You are trying to penalize LEGITIMATE small businesses utiltizing the internet. You must realize that the private individual has UNLIMITED resources available to sort and reject SPAM mail via their own computer software. It takes SECONDS for a person to earmark an unwanted email as spam and to never have to deal with it again (because their computer will automatically delete future emails from the spammer). Email has become the business standard of doing business. Many times the consumer will register on a website and request that information be sent to them. And then they forget they registered. Is it fair to penalize the person sending the requested information because the consumer has since registered on the Do Not Email list? NO! Penalizing legitimate businesses for the acts of Spammers is unnecessary and a burden to those businesses. You should be concentrating on getting the Spammers (and companies that make profit creating, selling and sending spam) out of business. Including X rated spam. If email spam is such a BIG issue, why hasn't my government gotten rid of JUNK MAIL? I get unsolicited JUNK MAIL all the time. I think of the endless paper, killing of trees, garbage, etc. When are you going to create a DO NOT MAIL list? Or would that NOT be in my government's best interest since all JUNK MAIL comes from the United States Postal Service? Hmmmm.... maybe I am beginning to see a pattern here.... take away telemarketing, take away email marketing ....and it all falls back to JUNK MAIL MARKET. Badda Bing! There goes the USPS back into becoming a PROFIT center! A Do Not Email Registry is a bad idea. Get rid of the Spammers, let legitimate businesses use email as the communication tool it was intended to be and let the consumer make their own choices to delete or read their email. And, if you are REALLY so concerned, why not invest a couple of Million Dollars into helping a software company come up with the perfect spam-o-lator? (Even AOL's anti-spam software is "intuitive" and learns what a person considers spam and what they consider legit email.) That is a better solution for all concerned. Why do I need my government telling ME, a private individual, how to manage my private email anyway? My prediction - If you pursue this nutty registry, we will all soon be receiving postcards delivered via the USPS trying to sell us Viagra. PLEASE, don't let it come to that! Thank you for your time. I am a small business AND a private individual. Cordially, Victoria Moate