Comments:

Members of the Federal Trade Commission: Hopefully, I have interpreted the questions correctly, and have accurately indicated my preferences. In case I have erred, I am offering the following comments as clarification of my wants, and beliefs. The idea of a National Do Not Email Registry is excellent! My household is already participating in the National Do Not Call List, and I believe this is the most convenient way to "opt-out" of annoyances that we NEVER agreed to "opt-in" to! Also, a reward system, or "bounty" on abusers of the law is another excellent idea that may substantially limit these types of e-mails, provided the existing law is modified correctly. My perception is that: The law should be written to PROHIBIT the sending of unsolicited e-mail messages, which primarily promote products or services, and do not originate from sources with which a person, or business, has an established relationship. E-mail messages from acceptable sources should then carry instructions on how to discontinue those mailings, if you desire to do that. There is some convoluted application of logic in our country that says it is okay for every business on the planet to send unsolicited e-mail messages to me, and then say that I can "opt-out" if I want to. This happens because, under the existing laws, "I never told them I WASN'T interested in their products or services" before the mailings began! I am very frustrated by the fact that, under the current laws, I continually find pornographic advertising in my inbox, and the inboxes of my children. But the law allows this to happen, because, again, "we never indicated to these advertisers that we DIDN'T want" these types of mailings BEFORE they began ! This clearly shows the fallicy of the current laws. These types of messages should not have been sent in the first place, because my family has "no prior relationship" with any of these people! Yet, because the messages "comply with the law" we continue to be deluged by them! Another aspect of what I consider to be SPAM comes from "siblings." This happens when you enter into a specific relationship, concerning a product or service, and before you know it , you start receiving unsolicited e-mail messages from "siblings" of that particular business. If I had any interest in the products or services offered by those "sibling" organizations, I would have sought them out specifically. There is no way those people can tell that "I might be interested" in what they are hawking, and therefore they should not be sending me unsolicited e-mail messages. The definition of "relationship" should be refined to indicate that no other entity of an Organization should be bothering me with their junk e-mails. Only the ORIGINAL division that I did business with should be allowed to contact me! Finally, it is a well known fact that, by answering an "opt-out" link, you are guaranteed that most originators of those messages now have confirmation that your e-mail address is a currently active one. Subsequently, your address will be added to a list, and then passed on, or sold, to someone else, so THEY can send you unsolitied e-mail messages! And so the chain of SPAM goes on. I sincerely hope that my remarks prove helpful in revising the existing laws, so they may better serve the people of our country and protect the consumer from this unwanted inconvenience. Sincerely, Daniel Stuart *REDACTED PERSONAL INFORMATION*