Comments:

Re: CAN-SPAM Act Rulemaking, Project No. R411008 To the Commissioners, I want to thank you for your efforts in trying to curb the use of unsolicited bulk mail. However... The proposed requirement for merchants to maintain suppression lists is something that is, quite frankly, troubling to me even as a consumer. It seems to me that the problems and costs associate with the idea being presented would do a great dealof damage to consumers and businesses alike. With that in mind, I would strongly urge you to reconsider. I am on a number of email lists from good people -- and I have purchased a number of ebooks -- and I feel that the use of "suppression lists" will seriously damage many folks who are carefully caring out their business practices in an honest, caring manner. Specifically, I am concerned about the harm it would do to publishers who require permission from the person buying whatever they are selling prior to adding them to any list. In my way of understanding, those folks are not who the CAN-SPAM was designed to put out of business. But this requirement will very likely have that effect. Please understand this. There's also the potential for significant harm to consumers, because of the problem of properly knowing their intent when they unsubscribe from a list. On top of that, these suppression lists could easily fall into the hands of spammers, leading to more spam instead of less. I was thinking about this whole thing, and could not even imagine what this would mean, for instance, if it was applied across the board in a different manner to, say, general booksellers for instance. Not only that, but it seems to me that in times when the economy has taken many "hits" over the years, the emphasis of the commision should be upon protecting one of the bedrocks of our free enterprise system: that of the small business owner *and* creative people whose activities in the business world provide for a more stable economy. Once again -- please -- take a good, hard look at the problems this would cause to so many. I sincerely ask you to reconsider the implementation of this act in light of the negative consequences it could have upon so many good, hard working people in our country. I thank you for taking this problem seriously. And, I thank you for *all* of the efforts you make which are designed to remain a free, strong and stable nation in the world. Of course, I'm partial. I think it's the best! Respectfully, Lee Wise Pennsylvania, USA