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To the Commissioners, Please don't enact this law, as is. I am a clinical psychologist and coach for grad students trying to finish their dissertations and faculty trying to get tenure. I send out a free email newsletter with tips and tactics to help them in their academic studies. My newsletter is a service that generates income. Your Act, as it is currently written, will end my efforts. I can't afford to keep track of those who unsubscribe. Plus, if I was to send out lists of the few people who do unsubscribe, I'm sure that those names and email addresses would be used by unscrupulous scammers. I handle my subscribe and unsubscribe services by hand -- this regulation would cause me to put a halt to my valuable free service. I consider the act as it stands a violation of my right to free speech. I never send unsolicited emails, I stop sending emails to people who request that I do so. But to tell the government whom I sending things to, and what the content is, violates my constitutional rights. I am against spam and would very much like to see an act that would keep my in-box less crowded with junk and prone to viruses. But please don't keep hundreds of students and university faculty from receiving my helpful tips each week. Thank you, Mary McKinney, Ph.D. Licensed Clinical Psychologist Academic Career Coach www.successfulacademic.com *REDACTED PERSONAL INFORMATION*