Comments:

Re: CAN-SPAM Act Rulemaking, Project No. R411008 To the Commissioners, I am happy and pleased that you are seriously looking at and wanting to tackle the problem of unsolicited bulk email. Unfortunately, I am concerned about maintaining supression lists which is proposed for merchants. This idea is costly and problematic. There can be much damage done to both consumers and business. As a consumer and business owner, I encourage you to consider this matter most carefully. Unfortunately, the use of suppression lists will seriously damage many of the legitimate publications available on the net. More importantly, I am concerned with how this will impact the relationship between publishers who require permission from the consumer prior to adding them to any list. They're not who CAN-SPAM was designed to put out of business, but this requirement will very likely have that effect. Upon being informed of this information, I was quite surprised at the potential problems this uling could involve, and urge you in the strongest possible terms to reconsider its implementation in light of these problems. Respectfully, Mark D'Ambrosio Connecticut, USA