Comments:

Re: CAN-SPAM Act Rulemaking, Project No. R411008d To the Commissioners, The rule you are considering will require marketers and merchants to maintain suppression (opt-out, unsubscribe) lists that might have to be distributed to others. That means my personal contact information and email address, if I decided to opt out of an internet publication, might be emailed to ALL other internet marketers. Besides that being a huge invasion of my privacy, can you promise me, that when my personal information is emailed to half the internet, that it would not end up in some spammer's hands, and now I'm SO ON THEIR LIST!! Meanwhile, internet publications that I "opted in" to and subscribe to may have to shut down as their authors can not bear the costs and problems associated with the proposed rule you are considering. This email does not come close to touching all the problems associated with what you are considering. Can you come up with something that ONLY affects spammers and NOT legitimate wonderful internet publications, etc.? That's pretty hard to do. You made it illegal for criminals to own guns - did that stop one criminal from getting a gun if he really wanted one? But the effect of that law on the law abiding citizens is that we now go through registrations and waiting periods when we're not the problem. But hard to get to the problem without burdening the ones who aren't the problem. If you can't get the spammers without burdening all of us, then stop. You're only making it worse. Respectfully, Kevin Akulin / Susan Jungclaus *REDACTED PERSONAL INFORMATION*