| Comment Number: | OL-103053 |
| Received: | 4/14/2004 4:24:02 PM |
| Organization: | Twin Trees Publishing |
| Commenter: | Daniel Sternberg |
| State: | CO |
| Agency: | Federal Trade Commission |
| Rule: | CAN-SPAM ANPR |
| Docket ID: | [3084-AA96] |
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Comments:
Dear Commissioners, You must not inhibit one's ability to work from home in this changing economy and start such businesses on a very limited budget, and limited time constraints on managing hundreds to thousands of e-mails - aside from their family time and core business time ... I am an independent broker for AmeriPlan Healthcare discounts, and several other products and services. As such: - I should not be held responsible for the refer a friend or other marketing activities of corporate AmeriPlan, or perhaps one idiot of the sixty thousand other brokers. - Suppose I have an e-zine offering valueable information and offers on whatever to 100,000 subscribers, and links to my 8 different products or services, and other advertisers. How am I supposed to know and manage the subscriptions of some of the people who happened to object to one or more of my offers, or advertisers, from a source I don't know about. - Likewise for any other lead generation campaign I might get involved in while, for example, that one idiot broker used another lead house and ticked off one of my new prospects - unbeknownst to me. On the refer a friend campaigns. Using Ameriplan, again as an example. A daughter, who is not an on-line marketer, refers, as a favor, my site or e-mail or e-zine to her Mom because she thinks her Mom would like the discounts on Healthcare, or whatever in my e-zine. Say Mom has already checked out AmeriPlan and decided it is not for her, or was turned off by that one idiot broker, or one of the other offers in my e-zine. How can the daughter be held responsible for the Mom's objections under CAN-SPAM, or me, or AmeriPlan, or whomever the source of my other offers. Ditto for managing all things related to "suppression lists". On the physical address thing, a woman marketer ought to be able to protect herself from a stalker type that might be amongst users of Mr. Gore's invention. Hope I've made sense. Daniel Sternberg *REDACTED PERSONAL INFORMATION*